CARE milk gift poster, Ceylon (Sinhalese poster distributed in Colombo)
A Sinhalese-language version of the CARE milk poster: a cuffed hand pours milk into a cup on a school slate over a map of the Americas and a yellow outline of Ceylon. The text names a gift through CARE from the American public to the schoolchildren of Lanka, with 7000 tons of milk for more than 1,250,000 children in over 6000 schools. The tell is transfer: the gift is credited to the American people through the hand and map.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- March 28, 1957
- 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
- Reassure
- Theme
- Health
- 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, March 28, 1957. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948966, 306-PPB-103).
Text on the object
කෙයර් (CARE) මාර්ගයෙන් ලැබෙන තෑග්ගක් අමෙරිකාවේ මහජනයාගෙන් ලංකාවේ පාසැල් සිසුන්ට කිරි ලංකාවේ පාසැල් 6000කට අධික ගණනක ඉගෙනීම ලබන 1250000 කටත් අධික සිසු දරුවන් සඳහා ලැබෙන කිරි ටොන් 7000 ක් බර කිරි
A gift through CARE from the American public to the schoolchildren of Lanka Milk Milk received for more than 1,250,000 schoolchildren learning in more than 6000 schools in Lanka 7000 tons weight of milk
