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Auction History Result 8c0002 MATHER & COMPANY linen 37x48 motivational poster 1925 art of man in forest, where am I, rare! Date Sold 4/1/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Linenbacked Motivational Poster (measures 36 1/2" x 48" [93 x 122 cm]) (Learn More) Mather and Company was a printer located in Chicago, Illinois which is best-known for producing Mather Motivational workplace posters in the 1920s. They were inspired by the U.S. government's poster campaign during World War I (WWI), and the 1920s desire for enhancing efficiency in the workplace. At some point in the early to mid 1920s, Charles Mather, the owner of Mather and Company, started producing these "motivational" posters, which encouraged discipline, loyalty, honesty, productivity and featured great artwork by a number of different artists hired by Mather. Unfortunately, the Stock Market Crash in 1929 caused businesses to greatly economize, and Mather stopped producing the motivational posters and they tried to stay in business by also making non-motivational posters, but they could not survive. But the ones that they did create often contained wonderful art and messages! If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this motivational poster! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had some long vertical tears scattered throughout, with a few small areas of paper loss in the words at lower right and some smudges in some of the lettering. It also had some small tears and paper loss around the edges. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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