Quezon, August 19, 1878 (English poster distributed in the Philippines)
A yellow poster headed 'Quezon August 19, 1878', the birth date of Manuel L. Quezon. A large pencil-style portrait of a man in an open-collared shirt fills the left, with three smaller sketches above (two men at a desk, one speaking). A quotation in his name reads: 'I had devoted my whole life to securing for them not the name or the form, but the substance and the essence of Liberty.' The tell is testimonial: a national figure's own words carry the message, with 'Liberty' as the unspecific virtue word.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1950
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Commemorate
- Theme
- Elections and party politics
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, c. 1950-55. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5729968, 306-PPA-68).
Text on the object
QUEZON AUGUST 19, 1878 "I had devoted my whole life to securing for them not the name or the form, but the substance and the essence of Liberty." [signature:] Manuel Quezon [boxed mark:] PRO
