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title: 'Home Canning: Testing, Labeling, Storing'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/home-canning-testing-labeling-storing-1943/
description: How-to sheet with photographs of a jar tilted over a tray to test for leaks, hands labelling jars of snap beans and tomatoes dated July 1943.
section: Collection
---

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# Home Canning: Testing, Labeling, Storing

How-to sheet with photographs of a jar tilted over a tray to test for leaks, hands labelling jars of snap beans and tomatoes dated July 1943, and a woman shelving jars in a cupboard, with short bullet instructions. The orange V behind the title is the only wartime symbol; the technique is faint (transfer).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
HOME
CANNING
TESTING
LABELING
STORING
Let jars cool 24 hours... then gently remove screw bands, unless they stick.
To test for leaks tilt jar.
Label each jar with contents and date.
Add lot number if you can more than one lot in one day.
Store in cool... dark... dry place --right side up.
[label on jar:] SNAP BEANS JULY 20, 1943
[label on jar:] TOMATOES JULY 15, 1943
[imprint:] 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
18
BUREAU OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND HOME ECONOMICS
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
```

[← Home Canning: Vegetables Out of the Pressure Canner](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/home-canning-out-of-the-pressure-canner-1943/) [Home Canning: Tomatoes, In and Out of the Bath →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/home-canning-tomatoes-in-and-out-of-the-bath-1943/)

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