To Better Government (English-language poster distributed in Asia)
A voter-registration and voting poster. Signposts reading 'This way' point to registration places and voting places, each a hut or small building with a flag and a long queue of people, under the line 'To better government of the people, for the people, by the people'. The tell is bandwagon, in the long queues shown going to the polls, and glittering generalities, in the borrowed 'of the people' formula.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- October 10, 1951
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series); imprint: National Movement for Free Elections and League of Women Voters
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- 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, October 10, 1951. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5730094, 306-PPA-194).
Text on the object
REGISTRATION PLACES REGISTRATION PLACES THIS WAY THIS WAY TO BETTER GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE VOTING PLACES THIS WAY THIS WAY VOTING PLACES Published by the National Movement for Free Elections and League of Women Voters
