Coca-Cola Workers Poster

Coca-Cola has been the drink choice of America’s workers since the late 1800s. As shown in the poster, this refreshment is adored and praised by these workers. This individual worker is in the railroad business working on steam engines. It portrays him holding the Coca-Cola bottle high and proud in the air showing off its glistening appeal of carbonated beauty. The carbonation and color of this beverage makes it look so desirable, which as a worker, is much to be desired. As he starts to get dehydrated, he holds the glass up extravagantly as if it were a first prize trophy or the most important drink man has ever laid his hands on. It is a glimmer of hope in this workforce when he gets it.
The way that this worker is holding the coke in the poster is very interesting. Instead of holding it upright like regular people would, he is tilting the bottle in the air as if he were so excited to drink it that he is letting it pour out of it and fall into his mouth.
In the background of the poster, there is steam exploding behind the hand of the worker and Coca-Cola bottle. This is showing how important it really is. How in all this hard work and extreme heat, there can be hope in this one drink. It explains that when a worker drinks the refreshment, they will be
The steam that is shooting into the air, is a part to a steam train. It would be traveling around, state-to-state, carrying extreme loads possibly including the one and only Coca-Cola bottle. This job is very labor inducing and stressful. They have been working restlessly in order to build something of this stature, so an honest break should be in order… or is it? In the middle of the poster, it reads, “Work Refreshed”. This states that if you drink a coke while on duty, it will not only refresh you and rejuvenate your taste buds, but it will also energize you and help you get the job done, which means working until everything is in tip top