30·8·59: 30 tháng 8 mình ơi! (30 August, my dear!), National Assembly election flyer, 1959
Colour flyer in which a young couple in traditional dress walk hand in hand, each holding a ballot marked 'PHIẾU BẦU CỬ', over a tinted wall of repeated election slogans and the date '30·8·59'. Below is a four-line couplet in which husband and wife invite one another to vote. The tell: the state speaks in the intimate, teasing voice of an ordinary couple rather than an official's (plain-folks).
- Date
- 1959
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Government of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), National Assembly election flyer; no printer named
- Region
- Southeast Asia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Diem Government
- Leader
- NGO Dinh Diem
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Techniques
- Plain folks
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Michigan State University Archives, Wesley R. Fishel Papers UA 17.95, MSU Vietnam Group Archive), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (South Vietnamese government work; Commons tags PD South Vietnam Government and PD-1996)
Government of the Republic of Vietnam; Michigan State University Archives, MSU Vietnam Group Archive, via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
30 • 8 • 59 [on the two ballot papers: PHIẾU BẦU CỬ] [tinted background of repeated, partly cropped slogans, among them: ĐI BẦU CỬ, QUỐC HỘI LẬP PHÁP, 30-8; the rest [illegible]] 30 tháng 8 mình ơi! Đi bầu Quốc Hội mình thời rủ tôi 30 tháng 8 đến nơi! Đi bầu Quốc Hội thời tôi rủ mình
30 • 8 • 59 [on the two ballot papers: ELECTION BALLOT] [tinted background of repeated, partly cropped slogans, among them: GO AND VOTE, LEGISLATIVE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, 30-8; the rest [illegible]] 30 August, my dear! To go and vote for the National Assembly, you invite me 30 August has arrived! To go and vote for the National Assembly, I invite you
Background slogans are tinted, overlapping and partly cropped, so only the fragments listed were read. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.
