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- Safety, Caution, Death Takes No Holiday!, 1940-1942 - Employers Mutuals, the first workers compensation insurance company in the U.S., produced this poster encouraging people to have a safe Fourth of July. Fireworks, careless driving, and other accidents caused hundreds of deaths during the holiday. The company reminded people to drive safely and celebrate sanely to "Stay Happy!"
- 1940-1942
- Collections - Artifact
Safety, Caution, Death Takes No Holiday!, 1940-1942
Employers Mutuals, the first workers compensation insurance company in the U.S., produced this poster encouraging people to have a safe Fourth of July. Fireworks, careless driving, and other accidents caused hundreds of deaths during the holiday. The company reminded people to drive safely and celebrate sanely to "Stay Happy!"
- Warning! Drive Carefully! Look Out for School Children!, 1940-1942 - Automobile accidents and fatalities continued to climb in the 1930s. Insurance companies and other safety advocates searched for ways to make driving safer. Employers Mutual of Wausau, Wisconsin, distributed this poster urging motorists to drive carefully and "Look out for school children!" The poster includes the poem <em>Prayer of the Modern Mother</em> by Jessie Wilmore Murton.
- 1940-1942
- Collections - Artifact
Warning! Drive Carefully! Look Out for School Children!, 1940-1942
Automobile accidents and fatalities continued to climb in the 1930s. Insurance companies and other safety advocates searched for ways to make driving safer. Employers Mutual of Wausau, Wisconsin, distributed this poster urging motorists to drive carefully and "Look out for school children!" The poster includes the poem Prayer of the Modern Mother by Jessie Wilmore Murton.