Museum Receives Painting of Ship Anahuac
This beautiful, moody painting depicts the ship in the middle of a “whirlwind” that struck on May 11, 1873, 400 miles W.N.W. of the Azores, while under command of Captain Spalding. The ship limped into the Irish Sea, and was finally towed into Liverpool on May 28.
Jacob Little: “Great Bear of Wall Street” & “Railroad King”
Little made large, early investments in the railroad construction industry at a time when many of his peers were suspicious of that kind of investment.