L30 Cabinet poster, group of ministers (Lao poster distributed in Vientiane)
A Lao-language landscape sheet. Under a headline 'the government of His Majesty the King of the Kingdom of Laos', a colour portrait of the king sits between a flag with the three-headed elephant and a Buddhist-colour flag, above eleven captioned photographs of cabinet members in two rows. The tell is transfer: the monarch, flags and royal emblem are placed over the ministers' portraits so the government carries their standing.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- September 25, 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
- Reassure
- Themes
- Elections and party politics, Home front
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- 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, September 25, 1958. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949022, 306-PPB-143).
Text on the object
ຣັຖບານຂອງພຣະບາດສົມເດັດພຣະເຈົ້າມະຫາຊີວິດແຫ່ງພຣະຣາຊອານາຈັກລາວ [Eleven captions under the ministers' portraits, giving names and ministerial posts: partly illegible] 9-7859
The government of His Majesty the King of the Kingdom of Laos. [Eleven captions giving each minister's name and post, not transcribed.]
The headline is Lao script read from the image; the individual caption lines are not reliably legible at this resolution and are marked as such.
