Elections U.S.A. poster, No. 2: The Candidates (English poster distributed in Asia)
An English-language poster headed 'Elections - U.S.A.' and 'The Candidates', showing four portrait photographs with equal-sized captions. Adlai Stevenson (Democratic candidate for President), Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican candidate for re-election) and, below, Estes Kefauver and Richard M. Nixon as the vice-presidential candidates. The poster names both parties' tickets and makes no claim for either. The tell is a plain, symmetrical layout that presents candidates as information rather than argument.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- January 1, 1956
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department IIEP), 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
- Warn or inform
- Theme
- Elections and party politics
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- 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, 1956. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948839, 306-PPB-50).
Text on the object
ELECTIONS - U.S.A. Adlai Stevenson Democratic Candidate for Presidency Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican Candidate for Re-Election for Presidency Estes Kefauver Democratic Candidate for Vice-Presidency Richard M. Nixon Republican Candidate for Re-Election for Vice-Presidency THE CANDIDATES
