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
- Date
- September 27, 1955
- 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
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Media and information
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- 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, September 27, 1955. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948825, 306-PPB-39b).
Text on the object
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]
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.
