Irrigation poster, Job No. 3: Water for the Dry Season (Lao poster distributed in Vientiane)
A Lao-language photo poster built around a blue map of Laos with seven marked sites (Nam Bac, Muong Phieng, Nafay, Ban Ban, Saravane, Thateng, Khong). Photographs show bulldozers, canal and weir building, hand labour and Lao and American staff, with two portrait roundels. The title and captions describe irrigation works for dry-season rice. The tell is plain-folks, ordinary farmers and workers and project staff shown building local irrigation.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- May 5, 1958
- 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
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Science and technology
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, May 5, 1958. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949008, 306-PPB-136).
Text on the object
ນ້ຳສຳຫລັບຣະດູແລ້ງ [illegible: two Lao introductory paragraphs and seven photo captions in Lao script] Map labels: Nam Bac; Muong Phieng; Nafay; Ban Ban; Saravane; Thateng; Khong
Water for the dry season. [Lao body text and captions not transcribed or translated.]
Only the headline and the Latin-script map labels were transcribed; the Lao body text is too small and dense to read reliably.
