Burma-American Friendship (Burmese-language poster distributed in Burma)
A Burmese-language photo-montage poster under a green headline reading 'Burma-American Friendship'. Nine captioned black-and-white photographs show Burmese and American people together: seated officials, a uniformed officer with a cadet flag, a Burmese harp, a hospital scene, a library table and students. The tell is transfer, with plain-folks: the goodwill of everyday exchanges and visits is attached to the two countries' relationship.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- June 26, 1953
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia 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
- Empire and colonialism
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, June 26, 1953. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5729919, 306-PPA-20).
Text on the object
မြန်မာ အမေရိကန် ရင်းနှီးမှု။ [nine photograph captions and two text blocks in Burmese, [illegible] at this resolution]
Burma-American Friendship (headline). The captions and text blocks are not translated here.
Only the headline is transcribed; the photograph captions and the two framed text blocks are too small to read reliably from the scan.
