Burma-America Picture News poster, 8 May 1957 (Burmese poster distributed in Rangoon)
A Burmese-language photo-montage poster under a navy banner headed 'Burma-American pictorial news'. Photographs show a naval officer and a Burmese man holding a ship model in a case, two men seated in conversation, a meeting at a long table with a microphone and a portrait on the wall, students seated with papers in a library room, a swimming pool, and a dental treatment. The tell is transfer with plain-folks: official visits and exchanges are shown as friendly, ordinary encounters.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- May 8, 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
- War and the military, Science and technology
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- 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 8, 1957. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948958, 306-PPB-101d).
Text on the object
မြန်မာ အမေရိကန် သတင်းရုပ်စုံ [six or more photograph captions in Burmese, [illegible] at this resolution] အမေရိကန် ပြန်ကြားရေးဌာနမှ ထုတ်ဝေသည်။
Burma-American news pictorial (banner, approximate). Imprint: "Published by the American Information Service [U.S. Information Service]." Photograph captions not translated here.
Banner and imprint read approximately; the small-type photograph captions are not transcribed.
