Free World Pictorial poster, Vol. 4 No. 2 (Chinese poster distributed in Taipei)
A Chinese-language photo sheet of nine items on U.S.-Taiwan links. Pictures show President Eisenhower shaking hands with a student at an exchange event, the King of Jordan arriving in Taipei, an orchestra rehearsal, a U.S. general receiving a framed portrait of Chiang Kai-shek, a Univac computer, a tanker named Faith at a launching, an artist's drawing of a spaceship and a 4-H style farm exhibit. The tell is card-stacking: exchange, technology and alliance items are selected, and the captions present them as joint progress.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- May 19, 1959
- 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, Science and technology
- 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, May 19, 1959. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949149, 306-PPB-230c).
Text on the object
自由世界畫報 卷四 2 臺灣美國新聞處編印 中華民國四十八年三月十六日出版 四萬名交換學生 約旦國王訪華 小管弦樂團 中國軍事教育家訪美 中國氣象學家 「信仰號」下水 未來的太空船 生產成果 FAITH BIG SHIPS BIG FREIGHTER UNIVAC 170
Free World Pictorial Volume 4, No. 2 Compiled and printed by the United States Information Service, Taiwan Published 16 March, Republic of China year 48 Forty thousand exchange students King of Jordan visits China Small string orchestra Chinese military educators visit the U.S. Chinese meteorologist Launching of the tanker 'Faith' Spaceship of the future Production results [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.
