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title: We'll have lots to eat this winter, won't we Mother? Grow your own, can your own
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/grow-your-own-can-your-own-1943/
description: 'Home-canning poster: a smiling mother and daughter in matching aprons seal jars of peas, carrots and tomatoes, with shelves of preserved food behind them.'
section: Collection
---

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[![We'll have lots to eat this winter, won't we Mother? Grow your own, can your own, 1943 US poster: Home-canning poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/grow-your-own-can-your-own-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/grow-your-own-can-your-own-1943.jpg)

# We'll have lots to eat this winter, won't we Mother? Grow your own, can your own

Home-canning poster: a smiling mother and daughter in matching aprons seal jars of peas, carrots and tomatoes, with shelves of preserved food behind them. The child's question, 'We'll have lots to eat this winter, won't we Mother?', puts the request in the voice of an ordinary family (plain-folks) and pairs a comforting domestic scene with the order 'Grow your own, can your own'.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
"We'll have lots to eat this winter, won't we Mother?"
Grow your own
Can your own
[signature: A. Parker]
[imprint: OWI Poster No. 57. 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-520465]
```

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