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title: 'Home Canning: Vegetables, Packing and Sealing'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/home-canning-vegetables-packing-sealing-usda-1943/
description: 'Instruction chart numbered 15 in a home-canning series, headed ''Home Canning Vegetables Packing Sealing'': four photographs of hands pouring cooking liquid'
section: Collection
---

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[![Home Canning: Vegetables, Packing and Sealing, 1943 US poster: Instruction chart numbered 15 in a home-canning series, headed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/home-canning-vegetables-packing-sealing-usda-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/home-canning-vegetables-packing-sealing-usda-1943.jpg)

# Home Canning: Vegetables, Packing and Sealing

Instruction chart numbered 15 in a home-canning series, headed 'Home Canning Vegetables Packing Sealing': four photographs of hands pouring cooking liquid over beans in a jar, adding salt and removing air bubbles, wiping the rim and fitting a metal disk and screw band. The technique is faint: plain kitchen hands and tools show the job as within anyone's reach (plain-folks).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Pack hot beans loosely...
cover with cooking liquid.
Leave 1/2-inch head space.
Add salt... then work out
air bubbles.
HOME
CANNING
Vegetables
PACKING     SEALING
Wipe jar rim clean,
ready for cap.
With this type of cap...dip
metal disk in boiling water..
set on jar... screw band
on tight.
For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. Price 50c per set of 20 charts
[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943—O-539498
BUREAU OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND HOME ECONOMICS
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
15
SALT
```

[← Home Canning: Tomatoes, Selection and Preparation](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/home-canning-tomatoes-selection-preparation-1943/) [Home Canning: Vegetables, Preparation →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/home-canning-vegetables-preparation-usda-1943/)

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