Nam Ca Dinh road project poster (Lao, distributed in Vientiane)
A Lao-language photo poster on a 100-kilometre highway project. A roadside sign reads 'Highway Project Nam Ca Dinh Nam Hinh Boun', cost US$7,350,000, built by Grove-Jones U.S.A. and supervised by the USAID/Laos Highway Division, with US shield and handshake emblem. A route map, a dignitary at a work site and a bridge photo follow. The tell is transfer, the road's benefits attached to the joint-aid emblem.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- February 9, 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Dept. information program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East; sign names USAID/Laos
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- Economy and finance
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Posters in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, February 9, 1965. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949272, 306-PPB-347).
Text on the object
[Lao headline: illegible] [Lao body text and map labels: illegible] [on the roadside sign, English:] HIGHWAY PROJECT NAM CA DINH NAM HINH BOUN LENGTH 100 Kilometers COST US $ 7,350,000-00 CONSTRUCTION BY GROVE-JONES U.S.A. ENGINEERING & SUPERVISION BY: HIGHWAY DIVISION USAID/LAOS [sign emblem:] UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Only the English text on the roadside sign could be read; the Lao headline and body text are not translated.
Lao script not legible enough to transcribe; the English sign text is verbatim, with smaller Lao and other lines on the sign omitted.
