Army Leader poster, Boun Oum portrait (Lao poster distributed in Vientiane)
A Lao-language poster carrying a single studio portrait of a man in a high-collared dress uniform with a sash, orders and medals, captioned with his name. It makes no argument beyond the portrait. The tell is transfer: the uniform, decorations and formal pose attach the authority of rank and state to the named figure.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- January 10, 1957
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Elections and party politics
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America, Middle East (NAID 5051202), retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, January 10, 1957. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948900, 306-PPB-77).
Text on the object
ສະເດັດເຈົ້າ ບຸນອຸ້ມ ນະຈຳປາສັກ
His Highness Prince Boun Oum Na Champassak
Lao script read by eye from the scan; transliteration of the name is the editor's rendering.
