Burma-America Picture News poster, 24 May 1957 (Burmese poster distributed in Rangoon)
A Burmese-language photo-montage poster under a green banner headed 'Burma-American pictorial news'. Seven captioned photographs show women greeting a Burmese man, an officer with an airborne-division shoulder patch presenting an item to a uniformed man, a woman looking through a microscope beside an older man, men handling sacks of grain, a library table, two nurses in a field, and a blood-pressure examination. The tell is transfer with plain-folks: everyday scenes of study, health care and aid are attached to the U.S.-Burma relationship.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- May 24, 1957
- 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
- Health, Science and technology, Economy and finance
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, May 24, 1957. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948957, 306-PPB-101c).
Text on the object
မြန်မာ အမေရိကန် သတင်းရုပ်စုံ [six or more photograph captions in Burmese, [illegible] at this resolution]
Burma-American news pictorial (banner, approximate). Photograph captions not translated here.
Banner and imprint read approximately; the small-type photograph captions are not transcribed. No imprint is printed on the sheet.
