World Pictorial News poster, Dec 1956: Eisenhower birthday (Urdu poster distributed in Karachi)
An Urdu news-photo sheet headed 'World Pictorial News' with six captioned photographs. They show a Pakistani judge and a lawyers' association leader at a U.S. conference, President Eisenhower's birthday with family, Pakistani sailors loading a gun, a Pakistani officer at a U.S. Army medical school, a Columbia University medical demonstration and a repaired dam in Korea. The tell is card-stacking: selected items on U.S. ties and aid.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- December 6, 1956
- 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
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Media and information, Science and technology
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 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, December 6, 1956. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948832, 306-PPB-45b).
Text on the object
عالمی تصویری خبریں [six photograph captions not transcribed]
World Pictorial News. [Six photograph captions not transcribed.]
Only the title is transcribed; photograph captions are not.
