Malaya Today, Picture Set E, no. 9: Braille demonstration by the Federation's Blind Welfare Officer (English photo poster distributed in Malaya)
A seated youth reads a Braille sheet with his fingertips while a man at a Braille typewriter and a crowd of villagers look on. The caption names Major D. R. Bridges, the Federation's Blind Welfare Officer, and calls the scene a demonstration in a Malayan village. The tell is testimonial: a named official, himself blind, stands as the proof that the service works.
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
- Health, 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 5729991, 306-PPA-90).
Text on the object
MALAYA TODAY PICTURE SET "E" SOCIAL WELFARE A blind Malay youth reads Braille script typed by Major D. R. Bridges, the Federation's Blind Welfare Officer, himself sightless, at a demonstration in a Malayan Village. [9]
Sheet number appears in a circle at lower left.
