Home Canning: Fruits, Packing and Sealing
Instruction chart numbered 11 in a home-canning series, headed 'Home Canning Fruits Packing and Sealing': five photographs of hands filling a clamp-top jar with fruit, covering it with juice, removing air bubbles, wiping the rim and snapping the clamp. The technique is faint: plain kitchen tools and a home cook show the job as ordinary and doable (plain-folks).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- 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
- 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)
U.S. Department of Agriculture. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-998K (NAID 514515).
Text on the object
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 HOME CANNING Fruits PACKING and SEALING Pack hot fruit into hot jar. Cover with juice....leave 1/2 inch space. Work out air bubbles. Wipe jar rim clean Snap top clamp tight... leave side clamp open. BUREAU OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND HOME ECONOMICS U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 11
