Lao Police School poster 146, photo set, 1959 US poster: A red Lao-language sheet with a headline, a block of text and six

Lao Police School poster 146, photo set (Lao poster distributed in Vientiane)

A red Lao-language sheet with a headline, a block of text and six numbered black-and-white photographs of police trainees: physical drill, a parade, the entrance gate of the police training school, a flag ceremony, a mess hall and a classroom. The text describes police training. The tell is glittering-generalities in the headline about the people's well-being, with transfer: the flag, uniforms and ordered ranks give the police the look of national institutions.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Glittering generalities Transfer

Date: June 10, 1959
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: Security and surveillance, Home front
Event: Cold War
Source: Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
Source: U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters (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, June 10, 1959. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949035, 306-PPB-146).

Text on the object

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

ເພື່ອຄວາມຜາສຸກ
ຂອງປະຊາຊົນ

[Body paragraphs and six numbered photograph captions in Lao: not reliably legible at scan resolution; [illegible]]

Photo 3 gate sign: ໂຮງຮຽນຮັບຣັບຕຳຫຼວດ / CENTRE D'INSTRUCTION DE LA POLICE / POLICE TRAINING SCHOOL

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

For the happiness [well-being] of the people. [Body text: describes training of police, including a course for several hundred recruits; not reliably legible.] Gate sign: Centre of Police Instruction / Police Training School.

Headline and gate sign read; body paragraphs and photo captions are too small and stylised to transcribe reliably and are marked [illegible].