Free World Pictorial poster, Vol. 1 No. 4 (Chinese poster distributed in Taipei)
A Chinese-language photo sheet of about a dozen items on the United Nations, Taiwan and U.S. affairs. Pictures show a United Nations Assembly hall, a speaker at the rostrum, a tank parade on a Taipei street, women delegates in the gallery, President Eisenhower signing a document, a U.S. admiral and a Chinese officer on a tennis court and children running to school. The tell is card-stacking: selected scenes of alliance, ceremony and U.S. institutions are placed side by side with approving captions.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- October 16, 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, Elections and party politics
- 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 6949155, 306-PPB-231).
Text on the object
自由世界畫報 卷一 4 臺灣美國新聞處編印 中華民國四十六年十月十六日出版
Free World Pictorial Volume 1, No. 4 Compiled and printed by the United States Information Service, Taiwan Published 16 October, Republic of China year 46
Only the masthead, issue line and imprint are transcribed; body captions are too small to read verbatim at this resolution. An English-language legislative text and handwritten note in one photograph are not transcribed.
