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title: 'Home Canning: Tomatoes, Packing'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/home-canning-tomatoes-packing-1943/
description: Instruction chart numbered 6 in a USDA home-canning set. Three photographs show hot tomatoes poured through a funnel into a jar, salt added with a spoon.
section: Collection
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# Home Canning: Tomatoes, Packing

Instruction chart numbered 6 in a USDA home-canning set. Three photographs show hot tomatoes poured through a funnel into a jar, salt added with a spoon, and air bubbles worked out with a knife. 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

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

## Text on the object

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

```
HOME
CANNING
Tomatoes
PACKING
Pack hot tomatoes into hot jars...work quickly.
Leave 1/2 inch head space.
Add salt
Work out air bubbles with a knife.
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
6
BUREAU OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND HOME ECONOMICS
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
```

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