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title: Fruit and Vegetable Packs
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/fruit-and-vegetable-packs-1917/
description: Six sealed glass jars, each labelled in a framed panel (peaches, blackberries, cherries, okra, string beans, soup mixture).
section: Collection
---

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[![Fruit and Vegetable Packs, 1917 US poster: Six sealed glass jars, each labelled in a framed panel](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/fruit-and-vegetable-packs-1917.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/fruit-and-vegetable-packs-1917.jpg)

# Fruit and Vegetable Packs

Six sealed glass jars, each labelled in a framed panel (peaches, blackberries, cherries, okra, string beans, soup mixture), fill a sheet that carries no slogan or direct appeal. The only persuasion is the display of ordinary home-preserved food under a federal extension-service imprint, with 4-H clover emblems in the lower corners.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PACKS
4H BRAND
PEACHES
BLACKBERRIES
CHERRIES
OKRA
STRING BEANS
SOUP MIXTURE
Home Demonstration Work
STATES RELATIONS SERVICE
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
[lithographer's imprint, lower right, very small, first initial uncertain: ?. GAMSE & BRO. LITH. BALTO., MD.]
```

'4H BRAND' is a small emblem below the title; the two four-leaf-clover emblems at the lower corners carry an 'H' on each leaf and no text beyond that.

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