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title: Portrait of the Emerald Buddha poster (Thai poster distributed in Bangkok)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/emerald-buddha-portrait-poster-thai-bangkok-1958/
description: A colour reproduction of a seated Buddha image in dark stone with gilded robes and a gilded base set with red stones, shown against a blue ground.
section: Collection
---

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[![Portrait of the Emerald Buddha poster, 1958 US poster: A colour reproduction of a seated Buddha image in dark stone](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/emerald-buddha-portrait-poster-thai-bangkok-1958.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/emerald-buddha-portrait-poster-thai-bangkok-1958.jpg)

# Portrait of the Emerald Buddha poster (Thai poster distributed in Bangkok)

A colour reproduction of a seated Buddha image in dark stone with gilded robes and a gilded base set with red stones, shown against a blue ground. The only printed words are a Thai imprint line at the foot naming the American information service. No slogan or argument is printed. The tell is transfer: reverence for a national religious image is placed beside the American service's imprint.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (Thai) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
สำนักข่าวสารอเมริกัน
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
American Information Service (U.S. Information Service)
```

Only the imprint line is printed; the pencil number at top right is an archival annotation and is not transcribed.

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