Arthur Norman Edrop (1884-1973) Designer, Illustrator and Journalist: Renovation and Coherence in Art Direction
Arthur Norman Edrop (1884-1973) Designer, illustrator and journalist: renovation and coherence in art direction – 1603 – 1. Portrait of Arthur Edrop in his thirties, c. 1915-1918. – 1604 – 21.1. ARTHUR NORMAN EDROP (1884-1973) suggested citation: Medrano-Bigas, Pau. The Forgotten Years of Bibendum. Michelin’s American Period in Milltown: Design, Illustration and Advertising by Pioneer Tire Companies (1900-1930). Doctoral dissertation. University of Barcelona, 2015 [English translation, 2018]. ARTHUR NORMAN EDROP (1884-1973) Arthur Norman Edrop was born in Birmingham, England, on May 15, 1884. He was the second child from the marriage of George Thomas Edrop (c. 1846-1914) and Annie Lane (1860-1934) after the birth a year before of his brother Percy Tom (1883-1945). In 1895, Annie Edrop moved with her two children to Liverpool from her last residence in Rhyl, Denbighshire County in the northeast coast of Wales, to set sail for the United States of America. The trip was made on board the transatlantic ship Teutonic, along with approximately 1,300 other passengers, many of whom migrated in search of opportunities for a better life. The three members of the family—Percy Tom, aged twelve, Arthur Edrop, eleven, and mother Annie, thirty-three—landed on October 23, 1895 in the port of New York with all their belongings. They were willing to settle in the neighborhood of Brooklyn and start a new life in American lands. The father and head of the family, George, would relocate at a later date; the official 1900 census documents that he was already residing in Brooklyn.
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