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
- 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, 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)
U.S. Department of Agriculture. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-998S (NAID 514522).
Text on the object
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
