Malaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 8: Soldiers' barracks at Taiping (Malay Jawi-script photo poster distributed in Malaya)
A photograph down the length of a thatched-roof barrack hall, with rows of bunks, trestle tables with kit laid out and boots placed on trunks. The Jawi-script Malay caption describes the soldiers' sleeping quarters at Taiping as looking tidy, clean and neat. The tell is card-stacking: an inspection-ready interior is offered as the whole picture of army life.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- September 3, 1953
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia 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
- War and the military, Empire and colonialism
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia (NAID 1767935), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, September 3, 1953. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5730020, 306-PPA-119).
Text on the object
تانه ملايو هاري اين كمفولن كمبر "دي" ڤاسوقكن٢ برسنجات ڤرسكتوان تڠسي تمڤت تيدور عسكر٢ د تايڤيڠ كليهاتن چوكوڤ ريڤيت، برسيه دان كمس. [8]
Malaya Today Picture Set "D" Armed forces of the Federation The soldiers' sleeping quarters at Taiping, looking quite tidy, clean and neat. [8]
Jawi script, read from the image; header reads 'Malaya Today, Picture Set "D", Armed forces of the Federation'. Jawi read from the image; the first word and the word read as 'tidy' are uncertain, and the English follows the sense of the sentence.
