Can all you can. It's a real war job!
Home-front canning poster: an empty glass jar with a red, white and blue label reading CAN ALL YOU CAN sits among pears, apples, beets, corn and tomatoes, above the banner IT'S A REAL WAR JOB. The tell is the banner, which attaches the status of war work to household food preservation (transfer).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of War Information
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Office of War Information. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-118 (NAID 513566).
Text on the object
CAN ALL YOU CAN IT'S A REAL WAR JOB! [imprint: OWI Poster No. 77 -16" x 22 1/8". Additional copies may be obtained upon request from the Division of Public Inquiries, Office of War Information, Washington, D. C.] [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943-O-533993]
