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title: Burma-America Friendship Poster No. 1 (Burmese poster distributed in Burma)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/burma-america-friendship-poster-1-burmese-1955/
description: 'A Burmese-language photo-sheet under a navy masthead with eight captioned photographs: an aerial view of an American college town.'
section: Collection
---

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# Burma-America Friendship Poster No. 1 (Burmese poster distributed in Burma)

A Burmese-language photo-sheet under a navy masthead with eight captioned photographs: an aerial view of an American college town, Burmese students arriving and registering at a US campus, a dance, a singing group, a gathering and a seated meeting, around a nineteenth-century portrait of a Burmese man in Western dress. It presents Burmese students' experience in the United States as friendly. The tell is plain-folks: ordinary, smiling social scenes stand in for the case.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
မြန်မာ အမေရိကန် သတင်းရုပ်စုံ
[photo captions in Burmese script, not transcribed]
```

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

```
Burma American Pictorial News
[photo captions not translated]
```

Burmese-language masthead and eight photo captions; the sheet prints no sponsor, imprint or date.

[← Geronimo](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/geronimo-berryman-1955/) [Burma-America Friendship Poster No. 2 (Burmese poster distributed in Rangoon) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/burma-america-friendship-poster-2-burmese-1955/)

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