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title: CARE milk gift poster, Ceylon (English poster distributed in Colombo)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/care-milk-gift-poster-ceylon-english-1957/
description: An English-language poster showing a cuffed hand tipping a milk bottle into a cup that stands on a school slate.
section: Collection
---

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# CARE milk gift poster, Ceylon (English poster distributed in Colombo)

An English-language poster showing a cuffed hand tipping a milk bottle into a cup that stands on a school slate, over a map of North and South America and a yellow outline of Ceylon. Text reads 'Gift through CARE from the people of the United States to the schoolchildren of Ceylon', with figures of 7000 tons of milk for over 1,250,000 children in more than 6000 schools. The tell is transfer: the hand and map attach the gift to the American people, with the quantities as the evidence.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
GIFT through CARE
FROM THE PEOPLE
OF THE
UNITED STATES
TO THE
SCHOOLCHILDREN
OF
CEYLON
MILK
FOR
OVER 1,250,000
CHILDREN IN
MORE THAN
6000 SCHOOLS
IN CEYLON
7000
TONS
OF
MILK
```

[← Community Development Through Self-Help poster (English, Manila)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/community-development-through-self-help-english-1957/) [CARE milk gift poster, Ceylon (Sinhalese poster distributed in Colombo) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/care-milk-gift-poster-ceylon-sinhalese-1957/)

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