Burma-America Poster No. 2 PO-226-B(2) (Burmese poster distributed in Rangoon)
A red-masthead Burmese photo-sheet with eight photographs of a visiting American official and his wife in Burma: greeting a Burmese official, standing before a pagoda throne, striking a large bell, visiting a hospital, presenting a gift and shaking hands with children. Captions in Burmese refer to the American Vice President. It portrays the visit as warm and personal. The tell is transfer: the visitor's rank and public acts are attached to US-Burma relations.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- January 4, 1954
- 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, Health
- 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, January 4, 1954. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948951, 306-PPB-98).
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 eight photo captions; no sponsor or imprint is printed.
