Epikaira Illustrated monthly poster, No. 90 (Greek, Athens, January 1957)
A Greek-language photo-news sheet, the January 1957 issue (90) of the monthly 'Epikaira Eikonografimena', laid out as a grid of captioned photographs. Items include a U.S. farm school model presented in Thessaloniki, a U.S. Sixth Fleet visit to Patras, a UN police force, the 1956 Hungarian events, a Nobel physics award for the transistor and a Russian-language edition of 'America' magazine. The tell is card-stacking: the sheet gives only items favourable to the United States and its Greek and NATO partners, and it transfers the standing of allies and ceremonies onto U.S. policy.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- January 1, 1957
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange 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
- Media and information, War and the military
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Posters in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, January 1, 1957. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948784, 306-PPB-30a).
Text on the object
ΕΠΙΚΑΙΡΑ ΕΙΚΟΝΟΓΡΑΦΗΜΕΝΑ 1—31 ΙΑΝΟΥΑΡΙΟΥ 1957 [page number] 90 ΔΙΑΝΕΜΕΤΑΙ ΔΩΡΕΑΝ ΥΠΟ ΤΗΣ ΑΜΕΡΙΚΑΝΙΚΗΣ ΥΠΗΡΕΣΙΑΣ ΠΛΗΡΟΦΟΡΙΩΝ
CURRENT EVENTS ILLUSTRATED 1-31 JANUARY 1957 [page number] 90 DISTRIBUTED FREE BY THE AMERICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
Masthead, date line, section headlines and imprint are transcribed. The many small photo captions in Greek polytonic type are not transcribed in full.
