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
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics
- 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, Economy and finance
- 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)
U.S. Department of Agriculture. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-998 (NAID 514505).
Text on the object
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
