Epikaira Eikonografimena poster, May 1959 (Greek pictorial poster distributed in Greece)
A Greek-language photo-and-caption wall sheet dated May 1959. A block headed 'The St. Lawrence Seaway' has a lock cross-section diagram and aerial views; around it are a crowd at a U.S. Air Force open day with a Greek Royal Air Force display, the Geneva foreign ministers' conference, a U.S. space-capsule test, and Greek officers at NATO schools and aboard a carrier. The tell is card-stacking: the page shows U.S.-led engineering, military open days and alliance activity as a single favourable picture.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- May 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
- 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 6948783, 306-PPB-29f).
Text on the object
ΕΠΙΚΑΙΡΑ ΕΙΚΟΝΟΓΡΑΦΗΜΕΝΑ ΜΑΪΟΣ 1959 Ο ΔΙΑΥΛΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΑΓΙΟΥ ΛΑΥΡΕΝΤΙΟΥ Ἡ Ἀμερικανικὴ Ἀεροπορία ἑώρτασε τὴν Ἡμέρα τῶν Ἐνόπλων Δυνάμεων τῶν Ἡνωμένων Πολιτειῶν, εἰς τὰς 10 Μαΐου [on aircraft:] U.S. AIR FORCE ΔΙΑΝΕΜΕΤΑΙ ΔΩΡΕΑΝ ΥΠΟ ΤΗΣ ΑΜΕΡΙΚΑΝΙΚΗΣ ΥΠΗΡΕΣΙΑΣ ΠΛΗΡΟΦΟΡΙΩΝ
TOPICAL ILLUSTRATED. THE ST. LAWRENCE SEAWAY The American Air Force celebrated Armed Forces Day of the United States on 10 May (English in the original) 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.
