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title: Qindeel photo poster on Iran's travelling schools (Urdu, Lahore)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/qindeel-photo-poster-iran-travelling-schools-urdu-lahore-1955/
description: 'An Urdu photo page headed ''Iran''s travelling schools'', with five photographs: camels carrying a school''s gear, a teacher handing out books and pencils.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Qindeel photo poster on Iran's travelling schools, 1955 US poster: An Urdu photo page headed 'Iran's travelling schools'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/qindeel-photo-poster-iran-travelling-schools-urdu-lahore-1955.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/qindeel-photo-poster-iran-travelling-schools-urdu-lahore-1955.jpg)

# Qindeel photo poster on Iran's travelling schools (Urdu, Lahore)

An Urdu photo page headed 'Iran's travelling schools', with five photographs: camels carrying a school's gear, a teacher handing out books and pencils, a boy holding a textbook before a tent, a child at a blackboard, and a tribal woman carrying a lamb. The body text says American foreign-aid agencies supply the schools' materials and teacher training. The tell is plain-folks, with nomad children and teachers shown as ordinary people and the American aid link stated in the captions.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Poster "Literacy in Iran"
Inserted in Urdu weekly Qindeel, June 5, 1955

ایران کے سفری سکول

[body text and photo captions not transcribed in full]
```

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

```
Poster "Literacy in Iran"
Inserted in Urdu weekly Qindeel, June 5, 1955

Iran's travelling schools

[body text and photo captions not transcribed in full]
```

Only the annotation and headline are transcribed; the Urdu body column and five captions are not transcribed in full. The handwritten lines are in English.

[← Qindeel photo poster on West Germany joining NATO (Urdu, Lahore)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/qindeel-photo-poster-german-entry-nato-urdu-lahore-1955/) [UN Force for Peace and Progress poster (Urdu poster distributed in Lahore) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/un-force-for-peace-and-progress-urdu-lahore-1955/)

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