Free World Pictorial poster, Vol. 1 No. 3 (Chinese poster distributed in Taipei)
A Chinese-language photo sheet of about a dozen items on Asia, Taiwan and the United States. Pictures show the Malayan independence ceremony, a Catholic archbishop greeting officials, a textile mill visit, a tractor demonstration, a poster honouring Ramon Magsaysay held by President Eisenhower and others, a child with a trophy and U.S. patrol ships handed to Taiwan. The tell is card-stacking: ceremonies, aid and alliance scenes are selected, with no unfavourable items.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- October 1, 1957
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Dept. IIEP), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series; USIS Taiwan imprint
- 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, Empire and colonialism
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 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, c. 1957. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949156, 306-PPB-232).
Text on the object
自由世界畫報 卷一 3 臺灣美國新聞處編印 中華民國四十六年十月一日出版 CHAMPION OF LIBERTY RAMON MAGSAYSAY 1953 1957 PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES 1175 1142 1087
Free World Pictorial Volume 1, No. 3 Compiled and printed by the United States Information Service, Taiwan Published 1 October, Republic of China year 46 [English text as printed on a stamp design in one photograph; hull numbers on ships]
Only the masthead, issue line, imprint and English text inside photographs are transcribed; Chinese body captions are too small to read verbatim at this resolution. The stamp text is partly cut off in the photograph.
