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title: 'Pishraft-e Iran wall news poster, No. 45: Shah''s land grants (Farsi, Tehran)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pishraft-e-iran-wall-news-poster-45-shah-land-grants-farsi-tehran-1957/
description: A Farsi photo-and-caption wall sheet, 'Progress of Iran' No. 45, on yellow panels. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
---

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# Pishraft-e Iran wall news poster, No. 45: Shah's land grants (Farsi, Tehran)

A Farsi photo-and-caption wall sheet, 'Progress of Iran' No. 45, on yellow panels. Photographs show the Shah decorating a US naval officer, handing land deeds to kneeling farmers captioned 'Yesterday's farmer, today's owner' and 'Grateful for the Shah's bounty', and visiting a tuberculosis hospital in Mashhad. The tell is transfer: a US Navy visit and US radio times are presented in the same frame as the Shah's land distribution.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/)

## Text on the object

Original (Persian (Farsi)) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
پیشرفت ایران
شماره ۴۵، این نشریه هر دو هفته یکبار انتشار می یابد

بازدید شاهنشاه از ناوگان ششم امریکا در تهران
[body text continues; not fully transcribed]

کشاورز دیروز و مالک امروز

شکرگزار احسان شاه

بیمارستان مسلولین مشهد

شاهنشاه از بیمارستان مسلولین مشهد بازدید فرمودند
[body text continues]

روزدوشنبه ۱۶ اردیبهشت گذشته مقداری از اراضی سلطنتی بین مردم تقسیم شد ... [body text continues]

صدای امریکا را در این ساعات گوش کنید
از ساعت 7 تا 10 بعد از ظهر
هر شب برنامه های جالب صدای امریکا روی موج کوتاه 13، 16، 19 و 25 متر
و موج متوسط 238 متر پخش میشود
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Progress of Iran
No. 45. This bulletin is published once every two weeks

The Shahanshah's visit to the US Sixth Fleet at Tehran [approximate]
[body text continues; not fully transcribed]

Yesterday's farmer and today's owner

Grateful for the Shah's bounty

Mashhad tuberculosis hospital

The Shahanshah visited the Mashhad tuberculosis hospital
[body text continues]

On Monday 16 Ordibehesht last, some of the royal lands were distributed among the people ... [body text continues]

Listen to the Voice of America at these hours
From 7 to 10 in the evening
Every night interesting Voice of America programmes on short wave 13, 16, 19 and 25 metres and medium wave 238 metres are broadcast
```

Masthead, headings, captions and the radio box are transcribed; dense body paragraphs are only partly transcribed.

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