Free World Pictorial poster, Vol. 4 No. 8 (Chinese poster distributed in Taipei)
A Chinese-language photo sheet of about nine items. Pictures show a Costa Rican envoy and his wife welcomed in Taipei, Madame Chiang Kai-shek with Mrs. Eisenhower and Mrs. Herter at the White House, a visiting U.S. conductor rehearsing a Taiwan orchestra, a crate marked for the U.S. Navy section of the Military Assistance Advisory Group at Kaohsiung, a U.S. dentist's miniature carvings, Tibetan refugees reaching India and a Taipei overseas students' association. The tell is card-stacking: visits, aid shipments and refugee news are selected to support the alliance and 'free world' framing.
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, Migration
- 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 6949153, 306-PPB-230g).
Text on the object
自由世界畫報 卷四 8 臺灣美國新聞處編印 中華民國四十八年六月十六日出版 有朋自遠方來 蔣夫人訪問白宮 美國名指揮家指揮省交響樂團 黃仁霖將軍訪美 雕塑巧技增進牙術 西藏難民生還印度 台北國際學生協會成立 NAVY SECTION MAAG TAIWAN PORT OF KAOHSIUNG
Free World Pictorial Volume 4, No. 8 Compiled and printed by the United States Information Service, Taiwan Published 16 June, Republic of China year 48 A friend comes from afar Madame Chiang visits the White House Famous American conductor leads the provincial symphony orchestra General Huang visits the U.S. Sculpting skill improves dentistry Tibetan refugees reach India alive Taipei international students' association founded [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.
