Burma-America Pictorial News Poster (Burmese poster distributed in Rangoon)
A Burmese photo-sheet with a text column and eight captioned photographs of a Burmese leader's visit to the United States and of American athletes in Rangoon: a welcome on a stage, handshakes with sports teams, tennis players, running with local youth, a naval inspection and the presentation of a book. It presents the two countries as in friendly exchange. The tell is transfer: the prestige of the leader's reception and the athletes' visit is attached to the relationship.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- January 24, 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
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Elections and party politics
- 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, January 24, 1956. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948950, 306-PPB-97b).
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, one text paragraph and eight captions; the long paragraph and captions are not transcribed here.
