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title: 'Free World Pictorial poster: Lincoln 150th anniversary supplement (Chinese poster distributed in Taipei)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/free-world-pictorial-lincoln-supplement-chinese-taipei-1959/
description: A Chinese-language illustrated supplement of the pictorial Free World for the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth.
section: Collection
---

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# Free World Pictorial poster: Lincoln 150th anniversary supplement (Chinese poster distributed in Taipei)

A Chinese-language illustrated supplement of the pictorial Free World for the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth. A large portrait is captioned 'Lincoln, symbol of free people', and smaller pictures with captions run through his life: birth in a log cabin, frontier youth, the Senate campaign, the White House, the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address. The tell is glittering-generalities ('freedom', 'equality') with transfer: Lincoln's standing is attached to the 'free world' masthead.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (Chinese (Traditional)) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
自由世界畫報
增刊
臺灣美國新聞處編印
中華民國四十八年二月十二日出版
林肯一百五十週年誕辰紀念特刊
林肯——自由人類的象徵
誕生
幼年
律師的矢志人權
競選參議員
入主白宮
南北戰爭
解放黑奴宣言
萬世景仰
PROCLAMATION OF EMANCIPATION
FOUR SCORE AND SEVEN YEARS AGO OUR FATHERS BROUGHT FORTH ON THIS CONTINENT A NEW NATION [Gettysburg Address text on plaque, remainder not transcribed]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Free World Pictorial
Supplement
Compiled and printed by the United States Information Service, Taiwan
Published 12 February, Republic of China year 48
Special commemorative issue for the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's birth
Lincoln: symbol of free people
Birth
Childhood
The lawyer's resolve for human rights
Running for the Senate
Entering the White House
The Civil War
Emancipation Proclamation
Revered through the ages
[English text as printed]
```

Only the masthead, issue line, imprint and photo-caption headings are transcribed; the body captions are partly illegible at this resolution and are not transcribed verbatim.

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