Posters - Beebe, Robert. A well-earned rest! He worked so hard to keep from working that he got a long vacation. Color lithographed poster on paper. Signed in the plate, typographically inscribed and numbered in the lower margin. Mather & Company, Chicago, 1929, sheet dimensions: 111.5 x 91.5 cm. Motivational poster number 21 by Mather & Company, sole distributor for Great Britain and the Irish Free State. - Mather & Co.'s work ethic posters became very popular in the 1920s, especially in the USA and other English-speaking countries: employers who wanted to improve the efficiency of their company and also divert employees' attention away from the trade unions could take out a subscription to the posters from Mather & Co. They used catchy slogans, puns and metaphors as well as striking designs by well-known American artists. Sales, and therefore the campaign, ended abruptly after the New York stock market crash and the subsequent global economic crisis. - Sheet somewhat browned and with a few small foxing spots, as well as rolled, corners and edges slightly rubbed and with occasional small marginal tears, double hole punched in upper margin.