Malaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 9: Federation Armoured Corps vehicles in the Coronation parade, Kuala Lumpur (English photo poster distributed in Malaya)
A photograph of armoured cars passing a saluting base in Kuala Lumpur, with a decorated arch topped by a crown and reading 'LONG LIVE THE QUEEN'. Officials in white uniforms and seated spectators stand under bunting beside an ornate government building. The caption names the Federation Armoured Corps in the Coronation parade. The tell is transfer: the monarch's coronation and the arch are paired with the armed forces' vehicles.
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 5730001, 306-PPA-100).
Text on the object
MALAYA TODAY PICTURE SET "D" FEDERATION ARMED FORCES FEDERATION ARMOURED CORPS VEHICLES PASSING THE SALUTING BASE IN THE CORONATION PARADE IN K. LUMPUR LONG LIVE THE QUEEN [9]
Text on the arch and the vehicle name 'LE CATEAU' and plate numbers are within the photograph; the arch cipher is partly legible.
