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The Posters That Went to War · The Home Front
Can All You Can: It's a Real War Job!
Unknown (the NARA record names no artist) · Office of War Information, 1941–1945
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A home canning poster held by the National Archives in its World War II Posters series as 44-PA-118, gathered by the Office of War Information's Bureau of Special Services and dated between 1941 and 1945.
Why it matters
Victory gardens were planted at homes and in public parks to stretch rations, and canning kept their harvest through the winter.
What to notice
The pun on can, verb and jar at once, and the claim that kitchen work counts as a real war job.
A pantry shelf, counted as war work.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Unknown (the NARA record names no artist)
- Campaign
- Food Will Win the War
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Office of War Information, 1941–1945
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 513566, local id 44-PA-118), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 513566 · 44-PA-118
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. government work (the WPA Federal Art Project, the wartime agencies), any year. Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. National Archives catalogue re-read 2026-11-02 (NAID 513566, 44-PA-118): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted. The record title reads Its; the title here restores the apostrophe.
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