The weekend forecast for the grounds of Hagley Museum and Library is looking ready to spring for Spring, and we are feeling so fine about it we're bringing you a feline this week in the Hagley Vault.
This ca. 1929 poster from our Mather & Company workplace posters (Accession 1994.319) collection was produced by Mather & Company, a Chicago, Illinois-based printing firm that ran a subscription-based motivational workplace poster service.
Between 1923 and 1929, the company produced approximately 350 work-incentive posters. The posters were color lithographs with illustrations and captions that addressed workplace interpersonal interactions, appropriate behaviors, ideals, and guidelines.
Businesses would subscribe and receive a new poster every week. Posters like this one, and others found in our digital gallery of Workplace posters in the United States hung on the walls of factories and offices across America.