Malaya Today, Picture Set "E": Social Welfare, no. 2 (English poster distributed in Malaya)
A photograph of a nurse in a white uniform supervising a group of naked young children bathing under showers at the Selangor Children's Home. The caption says undernourished and neglected children 'forget their dismal beginning'. The tell is card-stacking: a happy bath scene is offered as the outcome of government care, with no figures on how many children are served.
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
- Theme
- Health
- 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 5729984, 306-PPA-83).
Text on the object
MALAYA TODAY PICTURE SET "E" SOCIAL WELFARE Bath-time at the Malayan Government's Selangor Children's Home where under-nourished and neglected kiddies forget their dismal beginning. (2)
