Malaya Today, Picture Set E, no. 8: Malay Women's Institute visit to Radio Malaya (English photo poster distributed in Malaya)
A group of women in sarongs and kebaya stands in a studio record library while a man in a tie shows them a disc. The caption calls the Women's Institute 'a rapidly growing movement' and says the members came 70 miles by bus from Kuala Pilah to Radio Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. The tell is bandwagon: 'rapidly growing' invites the reader to see participation as widespread and increasing.
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
- Gender and suffrage, Media and information
- 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 5729990, 306-PPA-89).
Text on the object
MALAYA TODAY PICTURE SET "E" SOCIAL WELFARE Malay members of a Women's Institute - a rapidly growing movement look around Radio Malaya's studios in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, after a 70-mile bus ride from their hometown, Kuala Pilah. [8]
Sheet number appears in a circle at lower left.
