Chitra Katha photo poster No. 24: East Pakistan tubewells (Bengali, Dacca)
A Bengali-language photo page for USIS Dacca on a campaign to install tubewells for clean drinking water across East Pakistan. Photographs show villagers building bamboo scaffolds, driving pipe into the ground by hand, pumping out clay and watching. The text says the East Pakistan government plans 50,000 tubewells with U.S. international cooperation help. The tell is plain-folks: named-free villagers at manual work present the programme as a shared village effort.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- October 25, 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
- Health, Science and technology
- 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, October 25, 1957. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948809, 306-PPB-34q).
Text on the object
চিত্র কথা পূর্ব পাকিস্তানের সর্বত্র নলকূপ বসিয়ে বিশুদ্ধ পানি সরবরাহের অভিযান [Bengali photo captions not transcribed in full] Issue No. 24 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) Campaign to supply pure water by installing tubewells throughout East Pakistan [Bengali photo captions on the page not transcribed in full: the East Pakistan government, with the help of the U.S. international cooperation agency, plans to install 50,000 tubewells; photographs show pipe-driving with bamboo frames, hand clearing of clay and villagers helping.] Issue No. 24 Published weekly for U. S. I. S. Dacca by Jatiya Mudran Editor'sNote :-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.
