Home Canning: Tomatoes, Selection and Preparation
Instruction chart numbered 4 in a USDA home-canning set. A woman sorts tomatoes at a kitchen counter, with two smaller photographs of washing and scalding them. The orange V behind the title links the household 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-998C (NAID 514508).
Text on the object
HOME CANNING Tomatoes SELECTION AND PREPARATION Choose fresh, firm, ripe tomatoes. Watch out for decay....one bad spot may spoil a whole batch. Wash thoroughly Dip in scalding hot water then in cold....for easy peeling. 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 4
