Yates, Edgar S. (sold) (Yates Bureau of Design, E.S. Yates)
Edgar S. Yates (February 1854 - April 30, 1930) was a British-American artist and lithographic engraver. Yates was born in England and emigrated to the United States in 1883, settling in Chicago. Yates was extremely versatile, advertising services as a logo and trade emblum designer, letter designer, lithographer, architectural rendering, and general commercial artistry. He worked under various names, including Yates Bureau of Design and E. S. Yates. Yates remained active until at least 1927, three years before his death at 76. He does not appear to have married or had children.
AKA: Yates Bureau of Design, E.S. Yates
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)