Epikaira Eikonografimena poster, February 1959 (Greek pictorial poster distributed in Greece)
A Greek-language photo-and-caption wall sheet dated February 1959. The lead block, headed 'Lincoln: the symbol of the free man', shows the Lincoln Memorial statue, a 1809-1959 medal and a Civil War camp photograph with a Lincoln quotation, beside items on the 49-star flag for Alaska, the X-15 rocket plane, a Greek-US fertilizer loan and the Berlin situation. The tell is transfer: Lincoln's reputation is attached to the 'free man' idea and to the sheet's other U.S. items, within a card-stacked selection.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- February 1959
- 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
- War and the military, 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 1959. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948781, 306-PPB-29d).
Text on the object
ΕΠΙΚΑΙΡΑ ΕΙΚΟΝΟΓΡΑΦΗΜΕΝΑ ΦΕΒΡΟΥΑΡΙΟΣ 1959 ΛΙΝΚΟΛΝ: ΤΟ ΣΥΜΒΟΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΟΥ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΥ «Χωρὶς κακία ἐναντίον κανενός, μὲ εὐσπλαχνία γιὰ ὅλους, μὲ σταθερότητα στὸ δίκαιο, ὅπως μᾶς κάνῃ νὰ τὸ ἐννοοῦμε ὁ Θεός, ἂς προσπαθοῦμε νὰ τελειώσουμε τὸ ἔργο μας...» ΑΒΡΑΑΜ ΛΙΝΚΟΛΝ [inscription, English:] IN THIS TEMPLE AS IN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE FOR WHOM HE SAVED THE UNION THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN IS ENSHRINED FOREVER 1809 1959 ΔΙΑΝΕΜΕΤΑΙ ΔΩΡΕΑΝ ΥΠΟ ΤΗΣ ΑΜΕΡΙΚΑΝΙΚΗΣ ΥΠΗΡΕΣΙΑΣ ΠΛΗΡΟΦΟΡΙΩΝ
TOPICAL ILLUSTRATED. LINCOLN: THE SYMBOL OF THE FREE MAN 'With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in...' ABRAHAM LINCOLN same (English in the original) 1809 1959 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.
