Burma-American Mutual Aid: Burma's Gift to U.S. Flood Areas, 1953 US poster: A Burmese-language poster reporting a $10,000

Burma-American Mutual Aid: Burma's Gift to U.S. Flood Areas (Burmese-language poster distributed in Burma)

A Burmese-language poster reporting a $10,000 gift from Burma to American disaster victims. A three-photograph banner shows storm wreckage and a Red Cross vehicle; a Burmese ambassador is shown handing over a cheque, a Burmese Embassy cheque for American National Red Cross is shown, and two men view a photo display of the damage. The tell is transfer: American disaster and Red Cross imagery is joined to Burma's gesture of goodwill.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Transfer

Date: August 11, 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
Themes: Empire and colonialism, Home front
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, August 11, 1953. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5729922, 306-PPA-23).

Text on the object

Original (Burmese) · read from the image, not independently checked

ဗမာ-အမေရိကန် ယိုင်းပင်းကူညီမှု

[Burmese body text and five photograph captions, [illegible] at this resolution]

[cheque, English:] BURMESE EMBASSY NON-CONSULAR ACCOUNT / 2228 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. / Washington, D.C. 18th June 1953 / American National Red Cross $10,000 / The Riggs National Bank, Washington, D.C.

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English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

Burma-American mutual aid / assistance (headline). Body text and captions not translated here; they report a gift of $10,000 from Burma to victims of June 1953 storms in the United States.

Headline, cheque and imprint code transcribed; Burmese body text and captions are too small to read reliably. The headline's first word is partly overprinted on a photograph.