“Think”

Found this great picture while browsing through the Life archives over at Google Images. It’s such an interesting photograph. Were they posing? The suits are wonderfully 1950s: a large lapel, white shirt and a “smart tie.”

The caption reads: Italian-American working as a clerk for International Business Machines Corporation with its motto on desk “THINK.”

I’m afraid I was not aware that employees put the “think” motto on their desks… Do they still do that? In any event, it’s a great snapshot back into the world of yesteryear.

Photographer: Ralph Morse, New York City, March 1953

[via Life Archive: Google Images.]

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