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
- Date
- August 2, 1955
- 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
- Theme
- Migration
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, series NAID 5051202, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, August 2, 1955. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948947, 306-PPB-96b).
Text on the object
မြန်မာ အမေရိကန် သတင်းရုပ်စုံ [photo captions in Burmese script, not transcribed]
Burma American Pictorial News [photo captions not translated]
Burmese-language masthead and eight photo captions; the sheet prints no sponsor, imprint or date.
