Chitra Katha photo poster No. 39: Women's training (Bengali, Dacca)
A Bengali-language photo page for USIS Dacca on rural-development training for women in Pakistan. Photographs show women trainees cooking, preserving fruit, weighing food, cycling and arranging flowers, and the headline speaks of putting women's power to use in nation building. The tell is glittering-generalities, as the headline attaches a broad national goal to home-economics training, while plain-folks photographs of ordinary trainees carry the message.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- April 30, 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
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Gender and suffrage, Economy and finance
- 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, April 30, 1958. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948819, 306-PPB-34zz).
Text on the object
চিত্রকথা জাতী গঠনে নারী শক্তির সদ্বব্যহারের আয়োজন [Bengali photo captions and body text not transcribed in full] Issue No. 39 Published weekly for U. S. I. S. Dacca by Jatiya Mudran Editor's Note:- Please Post in Public Place, such as School Room, Board Bulletin Etc.
Chitra Katha (Pictorial Story) Arrangements for making good use of women's power in building the nation [Bengali photo captions and body text not transcribed in full: they describe women workers of East and West Pakistan village-development training centres learning home economics, food preparation and preservation, and household skills under the supervision of experts of the International Cooperation Administration.] Issue No. 39 Published weekly for U. S. I. S. Dacca by Jatiya Mudran Editor's Note:- Please Post in Public Place, such as School Room, Board Bulletin Etc.
Only the masthead, headline and printed English imprint lines are transcribed; the small Bengali captions and body column are not transcribed in full. The imprint text is partly broken in the print.
