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title: Am I proud! I'm fighting famine by canning food at home
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/am-i-proud-canning-1946/
description: Poster of a wide-eyed woman in an apron hugging an armful of filled canning jars, with more jars at her feet. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
---

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[![Am I proud! I'm fighting famine by canning food at home, 1946 US poster: Poster of a wide-eyed woman in an apron hugging](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/am-i-proud-canning-1946.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/am-i-proud-canning-1946.jpg)

# Am I proud! I'm fighting famine by canning food at home

Poster of a wide-eyed woman in an apron hugging an armful of filled canning jars, with more jars at her feet. The headline 'Am I Proud!' and the line 'I'm fighting famine... by canning food at home' tie a household chore to a large cause, in the plain-folks register of an ordinary homemaker.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
AM I PROUD!..
I'm fighting famine...
by canning food at home
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
[signature: Dick Williams]
[imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1946-O-695696]
```

[← A Message About Food... From the President of the United States](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/a-message-about-food-truman-1946/) [Back Your Future With U.S. Savings Bonds →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/back-your-future-savings-bonds-1946/)

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