Buddha Jayanti photo poster, 2500th year (Burmese poster distributed in Rangoon)
A Burmese-language photo-sheet under the heading Buddha Jayanti. Five black-and-white photographs show a crowd filling a large hall, officials kneeling in white before a row of monks, a senior monk receiving offerings from a man in a head-cloth, and rows of shaven-headed novices with hands joined. A footer names the American information service as publisher. The tell is transfer: the standing of a major Buddhist anniversary is placed beside the sender's name.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- June 20, 1956
- 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
- Commemorate
- Theme
- Religion
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Posters in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, June 20, 1956. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949127, 306-PPB-219).
Text on the object
ဗုဒ္ဓဇယန္တီ [illegible: five photo captions in small Burmese script] အမေရိကန်ပြန်ကြားရေးဌာနမှ ထုတ်ဝေလှူဒါန်းသည် [illegible: imprint line at lower right]
Buddha Jayanti [illegible: five photo captions] Published and donated by the American Information Service (approximate rendering of the footer). [illegible: imprint line]
Only the heading and footer could be read with confidence; the five captions and the imprint are marked illegible rather than guessed.
