Home Canning: Boiling Water Bath

Instruction chart headed 'Home Canning, Boiling Water Bath' on improvising a canner: diagrams of water level above a jar, a photograph of a woman fitting a wooden rack into a wash boiler, and a pail with jars and a ruler. The technique is faint: an ordinary home cook and household vessels present the task as within anyone's reach (plain-folks).

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Plain folks

Date

1943

Period

Second World War

Made by

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics

Region

North America

Country

United States

Medium

Poster

Issuer type

State

Regime

Roosevelt Administration

Leader

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Audience

Domestic public

Purpose

Warn or inform

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)
U.S. Department of Agriculture. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-998A (NAID 514506).

Space for brisk
boiling - 1" or 2"
Space for 1" to 2"
of water above
jar
height
of jar
rack
space
Space for brisk
boiling - 1" or 2"
Space for 1" to 2"
of water above
jar
height
of jar
rack
space
12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
HOME
CANNING
Boiling Water Bath
If you don't have
a canner and can't
buy one.......
• Look for a large
deep vessel with
a cover.....
• A wash boiler or
metal tub with a
home-made rack
of wood or wire.
• A metal pail.... a
deep pot...a large
lard can --- fit
it with a rack
and cover and you
have a canner.
For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. Price 50c per set of 20 charts
[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943—O-539498
BUREAU OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND HOME ECONOMICS
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
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