Funny?
1929
Artist
Designer Unknown
Printer
Mather Chicago
DIMENSIONS
43 3/4 x 36 in. (111.1 x 91.4 cm)
OBJECT NUMBER
PH.352
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
Clown, Entertainment, Hats, Health and Safety, United States, Worker, Workplace Motivation
CREDIT LINE
Poster House Permanent Collection
KEYWORDS
Clown, Entertainment, Hats, Health and Safety, United States, Worker, Workplace Motivation
The tumbling clown in this work-incentive poster, one of nearly 350 produced by the Chicago-based printing firm, Mather & Company, between 1923 and 1929, points to the hazards of workplace joking. The Mather posters, designed to encourage productivity, hung in factories and offices all over America and typically addressed workplace behaviors and ideals.
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