Home Canning: Vegetables, Selection and Preparation
Instruction chart numbered 13 in a home-canning series, headed 'Home Canning Vegetables Selection and Preparation': a woman sorting a basket of green beans, a drawing of bean vines beside a jar with the line 'Two hours from garden to can is ideal', and hands washing beans in a sink. The technique is faint: an ordinary home cook and garden produce frame the task as common (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-998M (NAID 514517).
Text on the object
Pack Freshness "Two hours from garden to can" is ideal. Select young, tender, perfect beans. Wash thoroughly. HOME CANNING Vegetables SELECTION and PREPARATION 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 13 BUREAU OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND HOME ECONOMICS U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
