Cyrus West Field, American businessman and financier Size:L: 75 x 60cm 30th March 1979

30th March 1979

newly opened Severn Bridge

Queen of Sicilia and wife of Leontes in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale

There was again opposition from the usual quarters

French writer

Cyrus West Field, American businessman and financier Size:L: 75 x 60cm 30th March 1979Cyrus West Field, American businessman and financier, c1849 (1955). It was through Field's (1819 1892) suggestion and financial aid that the first Atlantic cable was laid. He later became a prominent promoter of New York's elevated railroad and owner of two newspapers. A print from Mathew Brady Historian with a Camera by James D Horan, Bonanza Books, New York, 1955.