# U.S. Information Agency poster gallery, 1950–1969

Sixty-two sheets from the U.S. Information Agency and State Department poster files in the FRAME snapshot, dated 1950 to 1969 and printed for audiences in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Each card prints the identifier the archive records, and the image stays on propagandaarchive.org.

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  U.S. Information Agency poster gallery, 1950–1969
  Sixty-two sheets from the U.S. Information Agency and State Department poster files in the FRAME snapshot, dated 1950 to 1969 and printed for audiences in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Each card prints the identifier the archive records, and the image stays on propagandaarchive.org.

This grid is a selection, not the whole file. The snapshot holds 907 objects dated 1950 to 1969 whose maker line names the U.S. Information Agency, a State Department information program, or a USIS post. Many are the same poster in several languages. This page shows one card per title, prefers the English or bilingual edition when the snapshot holds one, and spreads the cards across the years and the posts. Every poster this site has written up from that set is included, and those cards open the essay here. The London Why Viet Nam pamphlet is a booklet, not a poster, and is linked from the hub instead. The rest open the FRAME record.

The line under each title is the date the archive gives, usually the National Archives catalog date, and the identifiers it records. Some sheets carry a series identifier instead of an item number, and a few carry none. Where the line says "no primary id in the snapshot," this page does not supply one.

Two of the cards credit someone else first, with the agency as distributor: an Italian sheet credited to a Milan publisher and a Jordanian health poster credited to the Jordan Ministry of Health and the American Operations Mission. Sheets from the joint public affairs office in Saigon and a 1976 sheet are left out, as explained on the hub page. FRAME classes 52 of the 62 sheets here as blurred: the American sender is not shown on the sheet itself. That is the point the hub makes about the program, and the gallery lets a reader check it.

  United StatesRizal Died for You: Be Worthy of Him (English poster distributed in Asia)1950 · NAID 5730063; Record Group 306United StatesStop! Criminal! (English-language poster distributed in Asia)1950 · NAID 5730086; Record Group 306United States"We Are No Longer Human Beings!" (English poster distributed in the Philippines)1950 · NAID 5730152; Record Group 306United StatesAmericans and the Peoples of Asia (English-language poster distributed in Asia)December 4, 1951 · NAID 5729911; Record Group 306United StatesWe Want / We Do Not Want: Burma Civil Liberties (Burmese-language poster distributed in Burma)April 4, 1951 · NAID 5729921; Record Group 306United StatesEverybody's Listening to America Calling the Philippines (English poster distributed in the Philippines)May 25, 1951 · NAID 5730146; Record Group 306United StatesRed Star Over Asia PO-24-E (English poster distributed in Manila)October 3, 1951 · NAID 6949070; Record Group 306United StatesStop Communism (English poster distributed in the Philippines)August 13, 1951 · NAID 5730080; Record Group 306United StatesThe Red Target Is Your Home PO-44-E (English poster distributed in Manila)October 3, 1951 · NAID 6949071; Record Group 306United States世界最大的監獄 (The World's Largest Prison), U.S. map-and-newspaper-clipping poster (catalog title: Red "Bastille")June 22, 1951 · NAID 5730057; Record Group 306United StatesGerm Warfare: 공산주의자들의 거짓은 탈로되었다 (The Communists' Lies Have Been Exposed) (Korean poster distributed in Asia)May 8, 1952 · NAID 5729959; Record Group 306United StatesKremlin's Words and Deeds (English poster distributed in Asia)January 9, 1952 · NAID 5729981; Record Group 306United StatesUSA poster, Lincoln Memorial, Washington (Danish poster distributed in Copenhagen)January 1, 1952 · NAID 6948876; Record Group 306United StatesYouth Library (English-language poster distributed in Asia)January 28, 1952 · NAID 5730174; Record Group 306United StatesCrooked Politicians Are Elected by Honest People Who Don't Vote (English registration notice distributed in the Philippines)July 30, 1953 · NAID 1767935; NAID 5730044; Record Group 306United StatesDarkness at Noon handbill, Civic Theatre, Inc. (English-language handbill distributed in Manila)March 4, 1953 · NAID 5729935; Record Group 306United StatesMalaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 3: A patrol of the Armoured Corps (English photo poster distributed in Malaya)September 3, 1953 · NAID 5729995; Record Group 306United StatesNobody Can Stop Us from Exercising Our God-Given Right to Vote (English poster distributed in the Philippines)July 30, 1953 · NAID 1767935; NAID 5730045; Record Group 306United StatesThe Voice of Bataan: 11th Anniversary of the Fall of Bataan, 9 April 1953 (English poster distributed in the Philippines)March 17, 1953 · NAID 5730149; Record Group 306United StatesCome South poster, map split at 17th parallel (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon)August 5, 1954 · NAID 6949142; Record Group 306United StatesHeroes Day Posters: Lincoln, 'All men are created equal' (English poster distributed in Asia)August 6, 1954 · NAID 5729969; Record Group 306United StatesHeroes Day Posters: Rizal, 'Without liberty there is no light' (English poster distributed in the Philippines)August 6, 1954 · NAID 5729970; Record Group 306United StatesPrimary Duties of Drivers poster, PO-234-E (English poster distributed in Manila)May 12, 1954 · NAID 6949062; Record Group 306United StatesReligious Oppression poster 171e: Communism destroys religion (Thai poster distributed in Bangkok)September 15, 1954 · NAID 6949076; Record Group 306United StatesJoin the USIS Vacation Reading Club (English poster distributed in Manila)March 1, 1955 · NAID 6949068; Record Group 306United StatesThe Public Eye is on You, soldiers' conduct poster (English poster distributed in Asia)February 4, 1955 · NAID 6949066; Record Group 306United StatesAtoms for Peace poster, page 1: Eisenhower pledge (English-text poster, distribution post not stated)April 10, 1956 · NAID 5051202; NAID 6948910; Record Group 306United StatesElections U.S.A. poster, No. 2: The Candidates (English poster distributed in Asia)January 1, 1956 · NAID 6948839; Record Group 306United StatesJuly 4th, 1956 poster: Magsaysay and Nixon speeches (English poster distributed in Manila)July 17, 1956 · NAID 6949011; Record Group 306United StatesSEATO poster 185, strength and purposes (English poster distributed in Manila)April 10, 1956 · NAID 6949092; Record Group 306United StatesCARE milk gift poster, Ceylon (English poster distributed in Colombo)March 28, 1957 · NAID 5051202; NAID 6948965; Record Group 306United StatesCommunism Gives You Justice? Version B, English (poster distributed in Manila)April 9, 1957 · NAID 6948986; Record Group 306United StatesDestroy the Insects That Carry Disease (Arabic poster distributed in Amman)February 19, 1957 · NAID 6948737; Record Group 306United StatesKhrushchev and Stalin poster (Italian, Milan)1957 · NAID 6948883; Record Group 306United StatesMarian Anderson contralto concert poster (Chinese-English poster distributed in Taipei)August 26, 1957 · NAID 6948897; Record Group 306United StatesPeople's Capitalism exhibition poster, No. 62 (Spanish, USIS Guatemala)June 3, 1957 · NAID 6948885; Record Group 306United StatesTom Two Arrows Is Coming! (English poster distributed in Kuala Lumpur)January 21, 1957 · NAID 6949109; Record Group 306United StatesWestminster Choir choral concert poster (English poster distributed in Karachi)February 4, 1957 · NAID 6948829; Record Group 306United StatesAmerican Aid Program poster No. 1, handshake (Lao-English poster distributed in Vientiane)April 18, 1958 · NAID 6948896; Record Group 306United StatesPictorial Review No. 16: Thanksgiving Day in an American family (Amharic-English poster distributed in Addis Ababa)November 15, 1958 · NAID 6948747; Record Group 306United StatesRobert Frost Exhibit poster (Chinese-English poster distributed in Taipei)1958 · NAID 6949157; Record Group 306United StatesStory of Hungary poster No. 1: Comes to the Philippines (English, Manila)January 7, 1958 · NAID 6949043; Record Group 306United StatesSurvival in Space poster, English edition (English poster distributed in Asia)October 30, 1958 · NAID 6949103; Record Group 306United StatesThe Family of Man poster No. 9 (English poster distributed in Manila)May 22, 1958 · NAID 6949042; Record Group 306United StatesAbraham Lincoln, Man of the People poster 148 (English poster distributed in Manila)January 13, 1959 · NAID 6949037; Record Group 306United StatesLouis Armstrong and His All Stars at the UNESCO Theater: The Ambassador of Jazz (Arabic-English poster distributed in Beirut)March 24, 1959 · NAID 6948729; Record Group 306United StatesPictorial Review poster, No. 10: Alaska and Hawaii, the 49-star flag (Amharic-English, Addis Ababa)July 7, 1959 · NAID 6948759; Record Group 306United StatesThe Internationally Acclaimed San Francisco Ballet in Its First Beirut Appearance (Arabic-English poster distributed in Beirut)February 20, 1959 · NAID 6948733; Record Group 306United StatesAlianza para el Progreso poster 409b, public health (Spanish poster distributed in Mexico City)July 27, 1964 · NAID 6949337; Record Group 306United StatesAmerican Elections poster, No. 1 (Japanese-English poster distributed in Tokyo)October 12, 1964 · NAID 6949283; Record Group 306United StatesKennedy film poster, English version (distributed in Beirut)November 11, 1964 · NAID 6949181; Record Group 306United StatesMoon Close-Ups from Ranger poster, Beirut (English)September 24, 1964 · NAID 6949208; Record Group 306United StatesORIT-ICFTU Free Labor congress call poster (English-language poster distributed in Mexico City)November 9, 1964 · NAID 6949359; Record Group 306United StatesThe Tennessee Valley Authority, Free World poster (English poster distributed in Manila)September 2, 1964 · NAID 6949287; Record Group 306United StatesAggression From the North poster, PPB-330 (English, Manila)April 23, 1965 · NAID 6949255; Record Group 306United StatesCommunist Subversion in Latin America poster, 65-323 (English poster distributed in Beirut)May 29, 1965 · NAID 6949176; Record Group 306United StatesPress and Freedom poster, Free World supplement (English, Manila)March 9, 1965 · NAID 6949246; Record Group 306United StatesU.S. Astronaut Walks in Space poster, 65-360 (English poster distributed in Beirut)July 30, 1965 · NAID 6949172; Record Group 306United StatesU.S. Position on Viet-Nam poster, PPB-331 (English, Manila)April 23, 1965 · NAID 6949256; Record Group 306United StatesVoyage to Mars poster, English edition (English poster distributed in Beirut)June 20, 1965 · NAID 6949217; Record Group 306United Statesคอมมิวนิสต์ หรือ เสรีภาพ (Communism or Freedom), Thai-language poster no. IV, labour panel1966 · no primary id in the snapshotUnited StatesFrontiers of Research poster (English, distributed in Manila)March 26, 1969 · NAID 6949269; Record Group 306

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