Chitra Katha photo poster No. 29: Pak-American farm youth exchange (Bengali, Dacca)
A Bengali-language photo page for USIS Dacca on the International Farm Youth Exchange: four young American farmers spent a month in East Pakistan. Photographs show them playing volleyball, bicycling, inspecting a rice field, travelling by launch to the Sundarbans, with village children and a calf, and staying with farm families. The tell is plain-folks: young farmers in village settings present exchange as ordinary neighbourliness.
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
- Economy and finance, 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 6948810, 306-PPB-34r).
Text on the object
চিত্র কথা পাক মার্কিন খামার যুবকদের পারস্পরিক বন্ধুত্ব বিনিময় [Bengali photo captions not transcribed in full] Issue No. 29 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) Exchange of mutual friendship among Pakistani and American farm youths [Bengali photo captions on the page not transcribed in full: four American farm youths came to East Pakistan for a month under the International Farm Youth Exchange of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and State Department, lived with Pakistani farmers and visited rural development centres.] Issue No. 29 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.
