Home Canning: Tomatoes, Sealing
Instruction chart numbered 7 in a USDA home-canning set. Three photographs show a jar rim being wiped, a glass lid and ring being fitted (labelled Glass top and Top seal rubber), and a metal band being screwed on. The orange V behind the title links the kitchen task to the war effort; the technique is faint.
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-998F (NAID 514511).
Text on the object
HOME CANNING Tomatoes SEALING Wipe off food that may prevent a perfect seal. With top seal rubber, fit ring over glass lid...set lid in place. Glass top Top seal rubber Screw metal band on tight...then turn back a quarter-turn. Caution: This applies only to this jar top pictured. 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 7 BUREAU OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND HOME ECONOMICS U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
