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
- 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-998E (NAID 514510).
Text on the object
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
