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Posters - Lee, Henry, Junior. Right-Of-Way. Keeping everything neat gives you the "go-ahead". Order speeds Results. Color lithographed poster on paper. Signed in the plate, typographically inscribed in the print lower right and numbered in the lower left margin. Mather & Company, Chicago, 1929, sheet dimensions: 111.5 x 92 cm. Motivational poster number 26 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 browned and somewhat light-stained, as well as rolled, corners and edges rubbed, the lower right edge to the corner with heavy marginal tears and tears, partly with small foxing spots, double holes in the upper margin.
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Posters - Lee, Henry, Junior. Right-Of-Way. Keeping everything neat gives you the "go-ahead". Order speeds Results. Color lithographed poster on paper. Signed in the plate, typographically inscribed in the print lower right and numbered in the lower left margin. Mather & Company, Chicago, 1929, sheet dimensions: 111.5 x 92 cm. Motivational poster number 26 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 browned and somewhat light-stained, as well as rolled, corners and edges rubbed, the lower right edge to the corner with heavy marginal tears and tears, partly with small foxing spots, double holes in the upper margin.
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