Pishraft-e Iran wall news poster, No. 49: Islamic Center, nurses (Farsi, Tehran)
A Farsi photo-and-caption wall sheet, 'Progress of Iran' No. 49, on green panels. It shows President Eisenhower at the podium opening the Islamic Center in Washington with a quoted statement, a sketch and photograph of the Center's minaret, and the Namazi Hospital and first nursing graduates in Shiraz, with a note on US help. The tell is transfer: the US president's respect for Islam and US hospital aid are linked in one layout.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1957
- 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 series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Religion, Health
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, c. 1957-58. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948866, 306-PPB-53g).
Text on the object
پیشرفت ایران شماره ۴۹، این نشریه هر دو هفته یکبار انتشار می یابد پرزیدنت ایزنهاور در نطقی که بمناسبت افتتاح مرکز اسلامی واشنگتن ایراد نمود اظهار داشت: بسیار بجاست که ما همه در برابر خدای یگانه خود را وقف پیشرفت و سلامت آمیز انسانها بسازیم. گشایش مرکز اسلامی واشنگتن بوسیله پرزیدنت ایزنهاور [caption continues] بیمارستان نمازی شیراز (مرکز مجهز تشخیص و درمان بیماریها) مراسم جشن فارغ التحصیلی آموزشگاه عالی پرستاری بیمارستان نمازی شیراز [body text continues; not fully transcribed] چهار نفر فارغ التحصیلان اولین دوره آموزشگاه عالی پرستاری 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
Progress of Iran No. 49. This bulletin is published once every two weeks President Eisenhower, in a speech on the occasion of the opening of the Islamic Center in Washington, declared: 'It is very fitting that we all, before our one God, dedicate ourselves to the progress and peaceful well-being of mankind.' [approximate] Opening of the Islamic Center in Washington by President Eisenhower [caption continues] Namazi Hospital, Shiraz (a well-equipped centre for diagnosis and treatment of diseases) Graduation ceremony of the Advanced School of Nursing of Namazi Hospital, Shiraz [body text continues; not fully transcribed] Four of the graduates of the first course of the Advanced School of Nursing 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
The issue-number digit and some hand-set words are small; masthead, headings, the Eisenhower statement and the radio box are transcribed and the body is only partly transcribed.
