Lao alphabet poster, illustrated consonant chart (Lao poster distributed in Vientiane)
A Lao-script alphabet chart. A magenta title panel heads a grid of consonants, each beside a small colour picture of an everyday object, animal or scene, among them a crow, a snake, a tiger, an elephant, a bicycle, a stilt house and a flag with a three-headed elephant. It teaches letters and carries no argument. The tell is plain-folks: familiar village objects stand for the learner's own world.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- August 24, 1956
- 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
- Warn or inform
- Theme
- Science and technology
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Posters Distributed 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, August 24, 1956. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948895, 306-PPB-72).
Text on the object
ອັກສອນລາວ [Grid of Lao consonant letters, each with a key word in small type beside its picture; not transcribed individually]
[Title read approximately: 'Lao letters' / 'Lao alphabet'. Key words not translated.]
Title only; letters and key words not transcribed.
