Chitra Katha photo poster No. 19: Pakistani student at Oregon (Bengali, Dacca)
A Bengali-language photo page for USIS Dacca following Pakistani student Qazi Abdul Alim, shown at the University of Oregon on an Asia Foundation scholarship studying physical education. Photographs show him in a cafeteria, library, gymnasium, ice-skating, playing table tennis, basketball and billiards with American students and staff. The tell is plain-folks: everyday campus scenes and a named individual stand in for the exchange-study programme.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- September 6, 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
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Science and technology, Migration
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- 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, September 6, 1957. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948805, 306-PPB-34m).
Text on the object
চিত্র কথা [Bengali photo captions not transcribed in full] [TRUTH] SHALL MAKE YOU FREE (partly visible English inscription on a building in a photograph) Issue No. 19 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 (Pictorial Story) [Photo captions in Bengali on the page: Qazi Abdul Alim, a Pakistani student, studying physical education at the University of Oregon under an Asia Foundation scholarship; shown at the cafeteria, library, gymnasium, skating, table tennis, basketball and billiards. A doorway inscription is translated as 'Truth will make you free'.] Issue No. 19 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.
Only the masthead, headline and printed imprint lines are transcribed; the small Bengali photo captions and body columns are not transcribed in full.
