Pakistani Sea Scouts on Cruise poster (Urdu poster distributed in Karachi)
An Urdu photo sheet titled 'Pakistani Sea Scouts on a sea voyage'. Nine captioned photographs show Pakistani Sea Scouts boarding a U.S. Navy ship, shaking hands with its commander, eating ice cream and meals with U.S. sailors, and taking part in signalling. The tell is transfer and plain-folks: friendly shipboard routines are used to associate Pakistani youth with the U.S. Navy.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- October 30, 1956
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East 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
- War and the military
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 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, October 30, 1956. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948828, 306-PPB-41).
Text on the object
پاکستانی بحری اسکاؤٹ سمندری سفر پر [nine photograph captions not transcribed] (سول اینڈ ملٹری پریس کراچی)
Pakistani Sea Scouts on a sea voyage. [Nine photograph captions not transcribed.] (Civil and Military Press, Karachi)
Only the headline and credit line are transcribed; the nine captions are not.
