Land for the Farmers, 1965 US poster: A photo-montage sheet (code SP-1047) reports a ceremony at which a deputy province

Land for the Farmers

A photo-montage sheet (code SP-1047) reports a ceremony at which a deputy province chief handed land-ownership certificates to 185 farmers in five villages of Nha Be district, covering 227 mau 12 sao 72 cao. Four photographs show a speaker reading, the hall, a woman farmer receiving her certificate and men examining the document. Only the handover is shown and counted; the sheet gives no figures for other farmers or for land not yet distributed.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Date
1965
Period
Cold War
Made by
Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO), for the South Vietnamese government
Region
North America
Medium
Poster
Issuer type
State
Regime
Johnson Administration
Leader
Lyndon B. Johnson
Audience
Domestic public
Purpose
Persuade or win support
Themes
Economy and finance, Home front
Event
Vietnam War
Source
Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
Rights
NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO), for the South Vietnamese government. National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-7-1047.

Text on the object

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

CẤP PHÁT RUỘNG ĐẤT CHO NÔNG DÂN

Ông Nguyễn Thôn Độ, Phó Tỉnh Trưởng Hành Chánh đại diện Trung Tá Tỉnh Trưởng Gia Định chủ tọa buổi lễ cấp bằng khoán quyền sở hữu ruộng đất cho 185 nông dân 5 xã thuộc quận Nhà Bè với diện tích 227 mẫu 12 sào 72 cao.

Một tân điền chủ đại diện 185 nông dân quận Nhà Bè phát biểu cảm tưởng sau khi nhận bằng khoán quyền sở hữu ruộng đất.

Một nữ nông dân xã Tân Quy Đông hân hoan lãnh nhận bằng khoán làm chủ ruộng đất do chính tay bà khai phá trong những năm qua.

Nét mặt hân hoan tràn đầy tin tưởng của các nông dân sau khi lãnh bằng khoán chính thức làm chủ ruộng đất của họ.

SP-1047

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

LAND ALLOCATION TO FARMERS

Mr. Nguyen Thon Do, Deputy Province Chief for Administration, representing the Lieutenant Colonel Province Chief of Gia Dinh, presided over the ceremony granting land-ownership certificates to 185 farmers in 5 villages of Nha Be district, with an area of 227 mau 12 sao 72 cao.

A new landowner, representing the 185 farmers of Nha Be district, speaks his feelings after receiving the land-ownership certificates.

A woman farmer of Tan Quy Dong village joyfully receives the certificate making her owner of land that she herself cleared over the past years.

The joyful, confident faces of the farmers after receiving the certificates officially making them owners of their land.

SP-1047

Vietnamese diacritics transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at image resolution. The caption 'Nghị-định ... Cấp quyền sở-hữu' on the certificate in the lower right photograph is too small to read and is not transcribed.