2-365-447 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Cyrus 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.