--- title: Dalat and Tuyen Duc Implement the Rural Construction Program url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dalat-tuyen-duc-rural-construction-1966/ description: 'A vertical photo-sheet (code SP-1057) reports rural-construction work in Tuyen Duc and Dalat: a new road linking a new-life hamlet to the Dalat-Saigon' section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Dalat and Tuyen Duc Implement the Rural Construction Program [![Dalat and Tuyen Duc Implement the Rural Construction Program, 1966 US poster: A vertical photo-sheet (code SP-1057) reports](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/dalat-tuyen-duc-rural-construction-1966.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/dalat-tuyen-duc-rural-construction-1966.jpg) # Dalat and Tuyen Duc Implement the Rural Construction Program A vertical photo-sheet (code SP-1057) reports rural-construction work in Tuyen Duc and Dalat: a new road linking a new-life hamlet to the Dalat-Saigon highway, soldiers building a bridge at Kade hamlet, U.S. Navy Seabees bridging the Danhim river, and a delegation crossing a new suspension bridge to a highland hamlet. The Vietnamese text is repeated in a highland language beneath each heading and caption, and a three-month calendar fills the foot of the sheet. A road, a bridge and a calendar are the offering; the sheet names no cost, source of the labour or local view. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` TUYÊN-ĐỨC DALAT THỰC HIỆN CHƯƠNG TRÌNH XÂY DỰNG NÔNG THÔN [highland-language headline, not transcribed] Con đường mới nối liền ấp tân sinh NAM SON với quốc-lộ Dalat-Saigon. [highland-language text, not transcribed] Binh-sĩ đang góp sức vào việc xây cất cầu tại ấp Kadé và nông-sản của đồng bào trong ấp sẽ nhờ cầu này tránh khỏi tình-trạng ứ đọng [highland-language text, not transcribed] SEA BEE; đoàn công-binh của nước bạn đang bắc cầu qua sông Danhim. [highland-language text, not transcribed] [sign in photograph:] CẤM ĐI TRÊN CẦU QUÁ 10 NGƯỜI Phái đoàn đang vượt qua cầu treo vừa hoàn tất để đến thăm đồng bào Thượng tại ấp Preriom quận Đơn-dương. [highland-language text, not transcribed] tháng tư | tháng năm | tháng sáu CHỦ NHẬT, THỨ HAI, THỨ BA, THỨ TƯ, THỨ NĂM, THỨ SÁU, THỨ BẢY [calendar date numerals not transcribed; lunar-month markers: Th. Ba nhuận (thiếu), Th. Tư 1 (đủ), Th. Năm 1 (thiếu)] SP-1057 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` DALAT AND TUYEN-DUC CARRY OUT THE RURAL CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM [highland-language headline, not transcribed] The new road linking the new-life hamlet of NAM SON with the Dalat-Saigon highway. [highland-language text, not transcribed] Soldiers are contributing labour to building the bridge at Kade hamlet, and the farm produce of the people in the hamlet will, thanks to this bridge, avoid being held up [highland-language text, not transcribed] SEA BEE; the engineer unit of a friendly country building a bridge across the Danhim river. [highland-language text, not transcribed] [sign in photograph:] NO CROSSING THE BRIDGE WITH MORE THAN 10 PEOPLE The delegation crossing the newly completed suspension bridge to visit the Thuong [highland] people at Preriom hamlet, Don-duong district. [highland-language text, not transcribed] April | May | June Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday [calendar date numerals not transcribed; lunar-month markers: leap 3rd month (short), 4th month day 1 (full), 5th month day 1 (short)] SP-1057 ``` The highland-language text is not transcribed because FRAME cannot read it; the Vietnamese text above is complete for the Vietnamese lines. 'Thượng' is the period Vietnamese term for highland peoples, rendered literally. [← Tuyen Duc and Dalat Help Rural People Build a New Life](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dalat-tuyen-duc-new-life-calendar-1966/) [Darlac News: Highland Villagers of Buon Ale A Form a Weaving Cooperative →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/darlac-news-weaving-cooperative-1966/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). 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Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.