Burma-America Picture News poster No. 12 (Burmese poster distributed in Rangoon)

A Burmese-language photo-montage poster with red banners reading 'Burma-American' and 'pictorial news'. Photographs show a woman and a man in conversation, a smiling tall man holding a hat among young women, three men before a wall map, a man signing a document at a desk, graduates in academic dress, and officers viewing aircraft models in cases. The tell is transfer with plain-folks: official and educational exchanges are presented as cordial personal encounters.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

TransferPlain folks

Date

September 10, 1958

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, September 10, 1958. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948959, 306-PPB-101e).

မြန်မာ အမေရိကန် သတင်းရုပ်စုံ

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

9-7804 (small printed number beside the imprint)

အမေရိကန် ပြန်ကြားရေးဌာနမှ ထုတ်ဝေသည်။

Burma-American news pictorial (banner, approximate). The banner is set in two blocks, 'Burma-American' and 'pictorial news'. Imprint: "Published by the American Information Service [U.S. Information Service]." Photograph captions not translated here.