Burma America Picture News Poster (Burmese poster distributed in Rangoon)
A teal-masthead Burmese photo-sheet with nine captioned photographs of exchange and cultural contacts: Americans examining artefacts, a book presentation before microphones, an animal skeleton, a Native American dancer performing for children, a Burmese dance troupe in Washington, a television set, a reading of a document and three women outside the White House. It presents the US as welcoming Burmese visitors. The tell is plain-folks: domestic and family scenes carry the message.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- July 6, 1956
- 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
- Science and technology
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- 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, July 6, 1956. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948949, 306-PPB-97a).
Text on the object
မြန်မာ အမေရိကန် သတင်းရုပ်စုံ [photo captions in Burmese script, not transcribed]
Burma American Pictorial News [photo captions not translated]
Burmese-language masthead and nine photo captions; no sponsor or imprint is printed.
