Health Poster #4 (Latrine): Clean and Safe Latrine (Burmese poster distributed in Burma)
A health-education poster on a dark blue ground in the style of an engineering blueprint. Front, side, plan and cross-section drawings give the dimensions of a pit latrine, and a shaded drawing at right shows the finished wooden latrine with its roof and door. A Burmese headline names a clean, safe latrine. The poster makes no argument beyond instruction. The tell, such as it is, is transfer: the technical drawing format lends the advice an air of engineering authority.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- July 9, 1952
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Health, Science and technology
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, July 9, 1952. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5729967, 306-PPA-67).
Text on the object
သန့်ရှင်း၍အန္တရာယ်ကင်းသော အိမ်သာ [dimension labels in feet and inches] [logo text, lower right: illegible] [handwritten, right margin:] Burmese [signature:] Henry
Headline, approximately: 'A clean and safe latrine'.
Burmese headline read approximately; the logo text is not legible.
