Burma-America Picture News Poster No. 8 (Burmese poster distributed in Rangoon)
A Burmese photo-sheet of seven captioned photographs under the masthead 'Burma American Picture News': a group of visiting men in suits, a recording-studio demonstration, a handshake in a crowded hall, men examining samples at a mill, two men reading a book at a table and a man showing students a textile machine. The tell is plain-folks: workplace and classroom scenes of Americans and Burmese working side by side, offered as cooperation and training.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- January 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, 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, January 6, 1958. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948963, 306-PPB-101i).
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.
