Malaya Today, Picture Set E, no. 4: Preparing dinner at Serendah Boys' Home (English photo poster distributed in Malaya)
Boys on the veranda of a Serendah boys' home prepare vegetables, roots and eggs for a meal. The caption says Chinese, Malay and Indian orphans receive a 'high-class education' under the United Kingdom Save-the-Children Fund. The tell is glittering-generalities: 'high-class education' is a favourable claim the photograph does not show.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- November 17, 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
- Race and ethnicity, 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, November 17, 1953. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5729986, 306-PPA-85).
Text on the object
MALAYA TODAY PICTURE SET "E" SOCIAL WELFARE Preparing dinner at Serendah Boys' Home, west-central Malaya, where Chinese, Malay and Indian orphan lads receive a high-class education under the United Kingdom Save-the-Children Fund. [4]
Sheet number appears in a circle at lower left.
