Chitra Katha photo poster No. 34: Worldwide campaign to destroy mosquitoes (Bengali photo poster distributed in Dacca)
A Bengali photo sheet on the worldwide malaria eradication campaign. Photographs show spraying and drainage in East Pakistan, a classroom lesson in North Africa, blood-slide testing in Cameroon and Colombia, a drawing from a Walt Disney cartoon, and a Thai temple spraying with a priest's quoted remark on science and religion. Captions say the U.S. gave 37 million dollars in 1957 and 63 countries take part. The tell is card-stacking: successes and U.S. funding are shown, with no failures.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- March 13, 1958
- 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
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Health, Science and technology
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, March 13, 1958. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948814, 306-PPB-34v).
Text on the object
চিত্র কথা বিশ্বব্যাপী মশক ধ্বংসের অভিযান Issue No. 34 Published weekly for U.S.I.S, Dacca by Jatiya Mudran Editor's Note:- Please Post in Public Place, such as School Room, Bulletin Board Etc.
Chitra Katha (Picture Story) The worldwide campaign of mosquito destruction [English imprint lines as printed.]
Masthead, headline and imprint transcribed; the Bengali body captions beneath the photographs are not transcribed in full.
