Felthousen, Charles I. (sold) (Delmont Publishing)
Charles I. Felthousen (1851 - July 3, 1920) was a Chicago-based printer and lithographer active from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries. Felthousen was born in New York, likely in Ithaca, but moved to Chicago as a child in 1854 - arriving, it is written in his obituary, by sailboat. In some reports, he is named as 'Colonel', though we see no military record. He worked for a time in St. Louis as the southwestern agent for an unnamed New York publisher. His printing and lithography firm was named after himself, 'Charles I. Felthousen', and later as the Delmont Publishing Company, after his son, Delmont. His wife was Clara Noble. The only image we found of Felthousen is a Chicago Tribune cartoon lampooning a 1910 incident wherein he was splashed with a bucket of paint.
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Technological optimism of early 20th-century.
[20th Century Tranportation.]
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A powerful 1910 Charles I. Felthousen / E. S. Yates chromolithograph broadside celebrating the technological optimism of early 20th-century America. It presents the United States as a nation dominating the globe, intoxicated by invention and increasingly convinced that technology will allow it to transcend geographic barriers. The broadside belongs to a broader tradition of aspirational progress imagery popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Such works sought not simply to document technological progress, but to elevate it into a defining national identity. It is no surprise that this was published in Chicago, which, by 1910, saw itself as the embodiment of the future. (more details)