Home Economics poster, No. 350 (Lao, Vientiane)
A Lao-language instructional sheet titled 'For health and sanitation'. Line drawings in a red-ruled grid show boiling and filtering drinking water, keeping a bedroom with a mosquito net clean, a simple wood stove with a chimney, a method for washing clothes, and red crosses marking hazards to small children at home. The tell is plain-folks: Lao housewives are shown doing the recommended chores, with no sponsor named.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- February 2, 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Health, Home front
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- 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, February 2, 1965. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949275, 306-PPB-350).
Text on the object
ເພື່ອສຸຂພາບ ແລະ ອະນາໄມ ເຮັດຄວາມສະອາດຫ້ອງນອນ ວິທີຊັກເຄື່ອງແບບງ່າຍໆ [numbered step captions, ingredient lists and hazard captions in small Lao type, illegible at this resolution]
For health and sanitation. Clean the bedroom. Simple way to wash clothes. [small captions not transcribed]
Only the headings are legible; the many small captions are omitted.
