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title: Join the USIS Vacation Reading Club (English poster distributed in Manila)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/join-the-usis-reading-club-english-manila-1955/
description: A boy in a hat leans against a tree reading a book beside a stream, a fishing line trailing a leaping frog, under the headline 'Vacation reading is fun'.
section: Collection
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[![Join the USIS Vacation Reading Club, 1955 US poster: A boy in a hat leans against a tree reading a book beside a stream](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/join-the-usis-reading-club-english-manila-1955.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/join-the-usis-reading-club-english-manila-1955.jpg)

# Join the USIS Vacation Reading Club (English poster distributed in Manila)

A boy in a hat leans against a tree reading a book beside a stream, a fishing line trailing a leaping frog, under the headline 'Vacation reading is fun', followed by an invitation to join the USIS Vacation Reading Club and enjoy the vacation. The tell is plain-folks: a relaxed, rural child's pastime is used to make joining a US-run library programme look ordinary and pleasant.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Vacation reading
is fun...
Join the USIS Vacation
Reading Club
and enjoy your vacation.

[signature, lower right, partly legible:] Nieves
```

Small text on the book cover is illegible.

[← Sounds Like the Line I fell for Ten Years Ago](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-sounds-like-the-line-i-fell-for-1955/) [Well, Sam, What do We Try Next? →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-well-sam-what-do-we-try-next-1955/)

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