Home Canning: Vegetables, Into the Pressure Canner
Instruction chart numbered 16 in a home-canning series, headed 'Home Canning Vegetables Into the Pressure Canner': photographs of jars on a rack, a closed canner with gauge and clock, a hand shutting the pet cock and a hand turning off a stove knob, with the line 'Keep pressure steady'. The technique is faint: household equipment and plain steps frame the task as routine (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-998Q (NAID 514520).
Text on the object
HOME CANNING Vegetables INTO THE PRESSURE CANNER Have an inch of boiling water in the canner. Don't crowd jars on rack. Fasten cover carefully. Let steam pour steadily from open pet cock for 7 minutes. Now shut the pet cock. When pressure reaches 10 pounds (for beans) start counting time. Time's up! Turn off heat or slide canner away from heat. Keep pressure steady 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 16 BUREAU OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND HOME ECONOMICS U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
