--- title: 'Malaya Today, Picture Set "E": Social Welfare, no. 3 (English poster distributed in Malaya)' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/malaya-today-social-welfare-3-english-1953/ description: A photograph of a Salvation Army officer, a young woman holding a toddler, cots and children in high chairs at the Girls' Home and Nursery in Ipoh, Perak. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Malaya Today, Picture Set "E": Social Welfare, no. 3 [![Malaya Today, Picture Set "E": Social Welfare, no. 3, 1953 US poster: A photograph of a Salvation Army officer, a young woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/malaya-today-social-welfare-3-english-1953.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/malaya-today-social-welfare-3-english-1953.jpg) # Malaya Today, Picture Set "E": Social Welfare, no. 3 (English poster distributed in Malaya) A photograph of a Salvation Army officer, a young woman holding a toddler, cots and children in high chairs at the Girls' Home and Nursery in Ipoh, Perak. The caption names Major Catherine Smith's 'family' of 40 abandoned infants and 25 delinquent older girls and one-year-old triplets. The tell is card-stacking: a named, appealing case stands for the welfare work, with no data on funding or outcomes. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` MALAYA TODAY PICTURE SET "E" SOCIAL WELFARE Among Major Catherine Smith's "family" of 40 abandoned infants and 25 delinquent older girls at the Salvation Army Girls' Home and Nursery at Ipoh, capital of the Malayan State of Perak, are one-year-old triplets- Peter (left), Betty (in high chair) and Mary (seated centre) Thong. (3) ``` [← Malaya Today, Picture Set "E": Social Welfare, no. 2 (English poster distributed in Malaya)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/malaya-today-social-welfare-2-english-1953/) [There's Your Package, Sir.. But It's No Gift! →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-no-gift-public-works-program-1953/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.