Malaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 8: A soldiers' barracks at Taiping (Tamil photo poster distributed in Malaya)
A photograph of the interior of a long thatched barrack hut, with rows of tables and beds laid out with boots, kit and equipment along both sides of a central aisle. The Tamil caption says the sleeping quarters in the soldiers' barracks at Taiping are clean and orderly. The tell is card-stacking: one tidy interior is offered as the whole picture of soldiers' accommodation.
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, 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 5730010, 306-PPA-109).
Text on the object
இன்றைய மலாயா படத்தொகுதி ஈ பெடரேஷன் இராணுவப் படை தைப்பிங்கிலுள்ள சிப்பாய் விடுதியில் ஆட்கள் நித்திரை செய்யுமிடம் சுத்தமாக, சீராக இருக்கிறது. [8]
Today's Malaya Picture Set [D] Federation Army In the soldiers' barracks at Taiping the place where the men sleep is clean and orderly. [8]
Header reads 'Today's Malaya, Picture Set [D], Federation Army'.
