Burma-America Picture News poster No. 19 (Burmese poster distributed in Rangoon)
A Burmese-language photo-montage poster with blue banners reading 'Burma-American' and 'pictorial news'. Photographs show a handshake between a tall man and two Burmese men, machinery being lifted from a ship at a quay, men holding a card reading 'YALE UNIVERSITY', a ribbon-cutting, women holding teacups, and a row of uniformed young women before a flag. The tell is transfer with plain-folks: formal ceremonies and everyday gatherings are used to attach goodwill to the U.S.-Burma relationship.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- February 6, 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
- Economy and finance, 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, February 6, 1958. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948960, 306-PPPB-101f).
Text on the object
မြန်မာ အမေရိကန် သတင်းရုပ်စုံ [six or more photograph captions in Burmese, [illegible] at this resolution] YALE UNIVERSITY (English, on a card held in one photograph); ရေးလ်တက္ကသိုလ် (Burmese, on a second card) အမေရိကန် ပြန်ကြားရေးဌာနမှ ထုတ်ဝေသည်။
Burma-American news pictorial (banner, approximate). The Burmese card reads 'Yale University'. 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.
