Family Week, December 1-7, 1952: Neighborly Families Make Wholesome Communities (English-language poster distributed in Asia)
A poster for Family Week, 1 to 7 December 1952. A man, woman, boy and girl stand on a rise looking over a drawn community of houses, a church, a school, roads and a bus, and the text says neighbourly families make wholesome communities. A banner invites viewers to join the nation in the celebration and says the nearest school will explain how. The tell is glittering-generalities ('wholesome communities'), with bandwagon in 'Join the Nation' and plain-folks in the ordinary family.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- November 4, 1952
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Theme
- Home front
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, c. 1952. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5729942, 306-PPA-42).
Text on the object
FAMILY WEEK DECEMBER 1-7 1952 Neighborly Families Make Wholesome Communities Join the NATION in this Celebration THE NEAREST SCHOOL IN YOUR COMMUNITY WILL TELL YOU HOW FAMILIES-COOPERATE!
