Guard Your Freedom (Ilocano poster)
An Ilocano-language civic poster. A farmer with a rice sheaf, a woman in traditional dress with a sun-and-stars motif, and a boy with a schoolbook stand before the red and blue of the Philippine flag, the woman holding a scroll marked 'Constitution of the Philippines'. 'Guard your freedom' and 'carry out your duties' are virtue slogans; the flag colours and constitution lend the national symbols' prestige to the message.
- Date
- August 8, 1952
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of State, International Information Administration (records later held by the U.S. Information Agency)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- Home front
- Techniques
- Glittering generalitiesTransfer
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NAID 5729964); image copy via Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Department of State / U.S. Information Agency. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5729964). Item page: Use Restriction Unrestricted.
Text on the object
Salacnibanyo ti WAYAWAYAYO IGAGAYO DAGITI PAGREBBENGANYO [handwritten annotation above the title:] Ilocano / Guard your Freedom / 23,000 / [date illegible] [on the scroll:] Constitution of the Philippines
Guard your freedom Carry out your responsibilities [annotation and scroll label are in English]
The handwritten pencil annotation at top is an archive or distribution note, not part of the printed poster. The scroll in the woman's hand is labelled in English. FRAME translation of the Ilocano (machine, not fluent-reader verified).
