Home Canning: Tomatoes, In and Out of the Bath
Instruction chart numbered 8 in a USDA home-canning set. Photographs show a jar lowered into a boiling-water pot with tongs, a hand in a cloth tightening a cap, and finished jars cooling. 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-998G (NAID 514512).
Text on the object
HOME CANNING Tomatoes IN AND OUT OF THE BATH Put jars into boiling water bath....cover. When water boils briskly start counting time. Time's up! Remove jars...tighten caps. Caution: Don't tighten caps with metal disk. Place right side up to cool. Never set hot jars on a cold surface. 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 8
