Burma-America Picture News Poster No. 13 (Burmese poster distributed in Rangoon)
A navy-masthead Burmese photo-sheet of six captioned photographs from a tour by an American gospel quartet in Burma: the group on stage in Rangoon, audience members, a large outdoor crowd, a military band, a performance at a festival and members signing autographs and meeting a child. It presents the tour as a goodwill visit well received. The tell is plain-folks: informal scenes of performers with local children and fans.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- March 5, 1959
- 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
- Migration
- 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, March 5, 1959. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948953, 306-PPB-99b).
Text on the object
မြန်မာ အမေရိကန် သတင်းရုပ်စုံ [photo captions in Burmese script, not transcribed] အမေရိကန် ပြန်ကြားရေးဌာနမှ ထုတ်ဝေသည်။
Burma American Pictorial News [photo captions not translated] Issued by the American Information Service.
Masthead, caption blocks and issue line in Burmese; captions are not individually transcribed.
