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title: 'Ba Canh Hamlet: The People of Ba Canh Starting to Work at Building a Bridge for the Hamlet'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ba-canh-hamlet-building-a-bridge-1965-1969/
description: 'A green-banded page of two photographs: villagers in conical hats digging and building a bridge while a man in a hat aims a rifle from behind an earth'
section: Collection
---

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# Ba Canh Hamlet: The People of Ba Canh Starting to Work at Building a Bridge for the Hamlet

A green-banded page of two photographs: villagers in conical hats digging and building a bridge while a man in a hat aims a rifle from behind an earth bank, and children running toward a new school building. The captions say the people of Ba Canh are building a bridge for the hamlet and that new classrooms are being raised for the hamlet's children. The tell is the selection of constructive scenes of ordinary villagers; the armed guard in the first picture is not mentioned in the caption.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Đồng bào Bá Canh đang bắt tay vào việc xây cầu cho ấp.

Những lớp học mới, sáng sủa, được dựng lên cho các con em của đồng bào trong ấp.

[Wall slogan on school, partly legible: ...HÒA BỎ TỪ... HỢP ĐOÀN KHÁNG CỘNG..., remainder illegible]

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```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
The people of Ba Canh are starting to work on building a bridge for the hamlet.

New, bright classrooms are being built for the children of the people in the hamlet.

[Wall slogan on school, partly legible: ...HOA BO TU... UNITE/UNION RESISTING COMMUNISM..., remainder illegible]

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```

The wall slogan is only partly legible at this resolution and its translation is tentative.

[← Ấp Bá Canh (Ba Canh Hamlet)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ap-ba-canh-ba-canh-hamlet-1965-1969/) [Ba Canh Hamlet: Ripe Rice and Mr. Phan Nho →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ba-canh-hamlet-harvest-and-phan-nho-1965-1969/)

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