Epikaira Eikonografimena poster, August 1958 (Greek pictorial poster distributed in Greece)
A Greek-language photo-and-caption wall sheet dated August 1958. Its largest items are a block headed 'Greek-American track and field games' with stadium and athlete photographs, a view of a UN General Assembly session, a map of the Nautilus submarine's Arctic transit with crew photographs, a medical demonstration of a polio vaccine and Greek students leaving for U.S. training. The tell is card-stacking: the selected items are U.S. sporting, scientific and aid achievements and Greek-American exchanges, with no unfavourable item.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- August 1958
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- USIS Greece, for U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Dept. IIE 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
- Science and technology, Media and information
- 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, 1 January 1958. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948779, 306-PPB-29b).
Text on the object
ΕΠΙΚΑΙΡΑ ΕΙΚΟΝΟΓΡΑΦΗΜΕΝΑ ΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΟΣ 1958 ΕΛΛΗΝΟΑΜΕΡΙΚΑΝΙΚΟΙ ΑΓΩΝΕΣ ΣΤΙΒΟΥ Οἱ Ἑλληνοαμερικανικοὶ ἀγῶνες στίβου, ποὺ ἐτελέσθησαν στὸ Παναθηναϊκὸ Στάδιο τὸν Αὔγουστο, ἀπετέλεσαν γεγονὸς ἐξαιρετικῆς σημασίας γιὰ τὴν ἀθλητικὴ ζωὴ τῆς Ἑλλάδος. [map label:] POLAR ICE PAC ΔΙΑΝΕΜΕΤΑΙ ΔΩΡΕΑΝ ΥΠΟ ΤΗΣ ΑΜΕΡΙΚΑΝΙΚΗΣ ΥΠΗΡΕΣΙΑΣ ΠΛΗΡΟΦΟΡΙΩΝ
TOPICAL ILLUSTRATED. GREEK-AMERICAN TRACK AND FIELD GAMES The Greek-American track and field games, held at the Panathenaic Stadium in August, were an event of exceptional importance for the sporting life of Greece. [map label, English in the original:] POLAR ICE PAC Distributed free by the American Information Service
Only the masthead, date line, section headings, imprint and selected caption passages are transcribed; the many small photo captions are not reproduced in full. Polytonic accents are approximated from a downscaled scan.
