Home Canning: Tomatoes, Preparation
Instruction chart numbered 5 in a USDA home-canning set. Photographs show a woman peeling tomatoes, tomatoes being boiled in a large pot, and jars being scalded in a basin. 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-998D (NAID 514509).
Text on the object
HOME CANNING Tomatoes PREPARATION Peel the tomatoes...remove stem ends. Prepare one canner load at a time. Bring to boil.....this shortens processing time and shrinks tomatoes so you get more into jars. Scald jars and tops. Caution: Follow manufacturer's directions for metal disks with made-on rubber. 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 5 BUREAU OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND HOME ECONOMICS U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
