Burma-America Picture News poster, Mar 1957 (Burmese poster distributed in Rangoon)

A Burmese-language photo-montage poster under a green banner headed 'Burma-American pictorial news', with six captioned black-and-white photographs of visits and meetings: two men talking over tea, a presentation of a framed gift, men beside stacked bales marked 'Southern Pacific Lines', a group seated with Burmese students, officers and women at an airfield beside an aircraft, and three men in suits. The tell is transfer with plain-folks: the standing of officials and the ease of social exchange are attached to the relationship between the two countries.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

TransferPlain folks

Date

March 11, 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

Economy and finance, War and the military

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, March 11, 1957. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948955, 306-PPB-101a).

မြန်မာ အမေရိကန် သတင်းရုပ်စုံ

[six or more photograph captions in Burmese, [illegible] at this resolution]

SOUTHERN [PACIFIC] LINES (lettering on cargo in one photograph)

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.