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
- Date
- 1943
- 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
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- 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-998P (NAID 514519).
Text on the object
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
