Chitra Katha photo poster No. 21: American Field Service students (Bengali, Dacca)
A Bengali-language photo page for USIS Dacca on American Field Service student exchange visits to East Pakistan. Photographs show U.S. students meeting a mill manager, the East Pakistan governor, local families and a radio station, and drinking coconut water. The text calls the students messengers of peace working toward world peace and goodwill. The tell is glittering-generalities: 'world peace' and 'international goodwill' are attached to a student-exchange tour.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- September 24, 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
- Theme
- 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 24, 1957. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948807, 306-PPB-34o).
Text on the object
চিত্র কথা বিশ্বে সমঝোতা প্রতিষ্ঠাকল্পে ছাত্র ছাত্রীদের কার্যক্রম [Bengali body text and photo captions not transcribed in full] Issue No. 21 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) Students' programme for establishing understanding in the world [Bengali body text and photo captions on the page not transcribed in full: American Field Service, a private educational body, arranged a visit to East Pakistan by four American students, who lodged with Pakistani families in Chittagong and Dhaka; the text calls such students messengers of peace and goodwill.] Issue No. 21 Published weekly for U. S. I. S. Dacca by Jatiya Mudran. Editor's Note :-Please Post in Public Place, such as School Room Buletin 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.
