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title: Home Canning
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/home-canning-usda-1941/
description: Instruction poster headed 'Home Canning' showing a boiling water bath pot and rack for fruits and tomatoes, and a pressure canner for corn, beans and peas.
section: Collection
---

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# Home Canning

Instruction poster headed 'Home Canning' showing a boiling water bath pot and rack for fruits and tomatoes, and a pressure canner for corn, beans and peas. Behind them, a large V frames photographs of produce and shelved jars, with stars and blue half-discs at the base. The technique is faint: the V and stars borrow wartime patriotic symbols for a how-to sheet (transfer).

## 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
Boiling Water Bath
for fruits, tomatoes
Pressure Canner
for corn, beans, peas, etc.
BUREAU OF HUMAN NUTRITION
AND HOME ECONOMICS
U. S. DEPARTMENT
OF AGRICULTURE
1
```

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