Free and United: The Americas Go Forward (Pan American Day, April 14, 1946)
Pan American Day sheet: a globe showing North and South America, haloed in orange and resting on clouds, under 'Free and United' and 'The Americas Go Forward', with the flags of the member states at lower left. The tell is the use of abstract positive terms ('free', 'united', 'forward') with no stated programme, and the unified hemisphere shown as one object.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1946
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Pan American Union, Washington, D.C.
- Region
- North America
- Country
- Transnational
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- No single regime or leader
- Leader
- No single regime or leader
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Commemorate
- Theme
- Home front
- Event
- Pan American Day
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Pan American Union. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-834 (NAID 514328).
Text on the object
FREE AND UNITED The AMERICAS GO FORWARD PAN AMERICAN DAY April 14, 1946 Pan American Union WASHINGTON, D. C.
