Home Canning: Fruits, Selection and Preparation
Instruction chart numbered 9 in a USDA home-canning set. A woman holds a peach beside a basket of fruit, with photographs of washing, scalding in a cloth bag, and paring peaches. The orange V behind the title links the kitchen task to the war effort; the technique is faint and the text is practical directions.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture
- 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, Health
- 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)
Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-998H (NAID 514513).
Text on the object
HOME CANNING Fruits SELECTION and PREPARATION Wash thoroughly Select firm, ripe, sound fruit. Sort for size. Dip in scalding hot water......then in cold......for easy peeling. Pare.... remove pits...cut into halves or slice. For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. Price 50c per set of 20 charts U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943—O—539498 BUREAU OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND HOME ECONOMICS U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 9
