Burma-America Pictures Poster No. 14 (Burmese poster distributed in Rangoon)
A navy-masthead Burmese photo-sheet with seven captioned photographs: a US president greeting Burmese exchange students, visitors at a desert overlook, a Burmese dancer posed with an American woman, a scout leader meeting, a book-week poster contest and a scouting presentation. It presents exchanges between Burma and the United States as friendly. The tell is transfer: a head of state's handshake and youth organisations lend standing to the exchange scheme.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- April 30, 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
- Themes
- Migration, Elections and party politics
- 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 30, 1959. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948952, 306-PPB-99a).
Text on the object
မြန်မာ အမေရိကန် သတင်းရုပ်စုံ [photo captions in Burmese script, not transcribed] 9-8752 အမေရိကန် ပြန်ကြားရေးဌာနမှ ထုတ်ဝေသည်။
Burma American Pictorial News [photo captions not translated] 9-8752 Issued by the American Information Service.
Masthead, three captions and caption blocks in Burmese; the printed issue line names the U.S. Information Service. Captions are not individually transcribed.
