You Are a Filipino / My Dear Son (voting poster sheet for the Philippines)
A two-panel sheet in English: a hatted farmer points at the viewer under 'You Are a Filipino', and a distraught woman pleads 'My Dear Son' above 'Preserve the purity of the ballot as you would preserve my honor and freedom.' The tell: virtue words ('majesty of the vote', 'honor', 'democracy', 'freedom') are attached to one act, casting a ballot, with no claim that could be tested.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1951
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of State, International Information and Educational Exchange Program (poster series distributed in Asia)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- Elections and party politics
- Event
- Philippine Elections 1951
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, series 'Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia' (NAID 1767935), retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA use restriction 'Unrestricted')
U.S. Department of State / U.S. Information Agency; National Archives, Records of the U.S. Information Agency (RG 306).
Text on the object
Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked
YOU ARE A FILIPINO UPHOLD THE MAJESTY OF THE VOTE. CAST IT TO HONOR YOUR COUNTRY AND DEMOCRACY. MY DEAR SON PRESERVE THE PURITY OF THE BALLOT AS YOU WOULD PRESERVE MY HONOR AND FREEDOM.
Two side-by-side panels; the left panel is given first.
