Better Water System poster (Lao, distributed in Vientiane)
A Lao-language photo poster under a large headline on solving a water problem. A central photograph shows a man in a jacket examining a blade; four smaller captioned photographs show villagers sitting in a meeting, bamboo pipe lengths laid along a field, people working at a vessel, and a man crouching by a channel. A centre text block describes a village's self-help water scheme. The tell is plain-folks: ordinary named villagers stand in for the programme.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- May 6, 1959
- 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
- Science and technology, Economy and finance
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Asia/LatAm/Mid-East posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, May 6, 1959. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948940, 306-PPb-90).
Text on the object
ການແກ້ໄຂບັນຫານ້ຳ [five photograph captions and a central text block in Lao, [illegible] at this resolution] 9-8775
Solving the water problem (headline). The captions and central text block are not translated here; the central block describes villagers and the village head solving a water shortage by a simple new method without spending money.
Only the headline and printed code are transcribed; the Lao captions and body text are too small to transcribe reliably.
