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
- Date
- April 18, 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
- Theme
- Media and information
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, series NAID 5051202, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, April 18, 1958. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948961, 306-PPB-101g).
Text on the object
မြန်မာ အမေရိကန် သတင်းရုပ်စုံ [photo captions in Burmese script, not individually transcribed] အမေရိကန်ပြန်ကြားရေးမှ ထုတ်ဝေသည်။
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.
