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title: Burma-America Picture News Poster No. 11 (Burmese poster distributed in Rangoon)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/burma-america-picture-news-poster-11-burmese-1958/
description: 'A Burmese photo-sheet of seven captioned photographs under the masthead ''Burma American Picture News'': a Burmese visitor with a man at a desk beside'
section: Collection
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[![Burma-America Picture News Poster No. 11, 1958 US poster: A Burmese photo-sheet of seven captioned photographs under](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/burma-america-picture-news-poster-11-burmese-1958.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/burma-america-picture-news-poster-11-burmese-1958.jpg)

# Burma-America Picture News Poster No. 11 (Burmese poster distributed in Rangoon)

A Burmese photo-sheet of seven captioned photographs under the masthead 'Burma American Picture News': a Burmese visitor with a man at a desk beside a flag, young women watching a seated artist, a boxing coach with Burmese boxers, a 1957 All-Burma photo contest award, a tennis lesson and sprinters at a track. The tell is plain-folks: everyday sport and cultural scenes of Americans and Burmese together, presented as friendly exchange.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (Burmese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
မြန်မာ အမေရိကန်
သတင်းရုပ်စုံ
[photo captions in Burmese script, not individually transcribed]
အမေရိကန်ပြန်ကြားရေးမှ ထုတ်ဝေသည်။
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Burma American
Picture News
[photo captions not translated]
Published by the American Information Service.
```

Masthead and issue line in Burmese; the captions beside the photographs are not individually transcribed. The text inside the contest photograph reads in English: 6 ANNUAL ALL-BURMA PHOTO CONTEST / 1957 / BURMA-AMERICA INSTITUTE.

[← American Aid Program poster No. 1, handshake (Lao-English poster distributed in Vientiane)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/american-aid-program-poster-no-1-laos-lao-1958/) [Chitra Katha photo poster No. 38: Friendship of the Muslim states (Bengali photo poster distributed in Dacca) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chitra-katha-38-muslim-states-friendship-karachi-bengali-dacca-1958/)

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