U.S. cultural mission to Burma, photo poster (Burmese, Rangoon)
A Burmese-language photo poster headed with a title about American cultural groups visiting Burma, showing six photographs: a choir greeting an official, a bandleader on stage, an athlete demonstrating a sprint start to young men, a performer in Native American dress with children, a bouquet presented to a dancer, and a visitor playing a Burmese oboe. The tell is transfer and plain folks: friendly informal contact between visiting Americans and Burmese hosts carries goodwill to the sponsor.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- March 11, 1957
- 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
- Theme
- Home front
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Posters in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, March 11, 1957. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949118, 306-PPB-210).
Text on the object
မြန်မာပြည်ရောက် အမေရိကန် ယဉ်ကျေးမှု အဖွဲ့များ Six photograph captions in Burmese: [illegible]
Header (best reading): American cultural groups in Burma. Six photograph captions not translated (illegible in the scan).
Header transcribed as best read from the scan and may contain errors; captions too small to read reliably.
