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
- 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 5729985, 306-PPA-84).
Text on the object
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)
