美援 / American Aid Product for China (ECA label sheet)
A press sheet of four identical labels, each a U.S. flag over a blue panel reading 'American Aid' in large Chinese characters and 'American Aid Product for China' in Chinese and English. The tell is the branding: aid goods are stamped with the national flag, so the donor's identity travels with the sack or crate and its recipients meet the flag whenever the goods are used.
- Date
- 1948
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Economic Cooperation Administration, China Aid Division (U.S. federal agency)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- Economy and finance
- Event
- Chinese Civil War
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (from U.S. National Archives, NAID 5900041), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; Commons PD-USGov, NARA record creator ECA)
Economic Cooperation Administration, China Aid Division, 1948. National Archives and Records Administration (NAID 5900041). The Commons file page cites PD-USGov and names the ECA China Aid Division as record creator.
Text on the object
援美 品物華援國美 AMERICAN AID PRODUCT FOR CHINA. (The same text is printed in each of the four labels; a small '325' appears at the lower right of each.)
American aid American-aid-to-China goods AMERICAN AID PRODUCT FOR CHINA.
The Chinese is printed right to left (the line 品物華援國美 reads 美國援華物品); the transcription keeps the order as printed. Translation is a literal machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.
