Together Always: 'Agcadua nga agnanayon' (Iloko poster distributed in the Philippines)
A colour poster of two smiling, bare-chested young men with an arm around each other's shoulder: one in a bowl-shaped helmet carries a plough and yoke, the other in a steel helmet carries a rifle. The caption 'Agcadua nga agnanayon' (The two of us, forever) frames farmer and soldier as partners. The tell is glittering generalities and plain-folks: unity is shown through idealised ordinary working men and soldier, with no concrete programme named.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- February 17, 1953
- 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
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Theme
- War and the military
- 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, February 17, 1953. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5730099, 306-PPA-199).
Text on the object
Agcadua nga agnanayon
The two of us, forever (literal gloss; NARA's English title is 'Together Always')
No imprint or credit line is printed on the sheet.
