Travels Abroad

With the wealth and status of the Drexels came the luxury of international travel. However, the family had much more humble origins in their patriarch Francis M. Drexel’s stories of his youth leaving Austria and trying to make a name for himself as a portrait painter in South America.

The following pages share records, photographs, and firsthand accounts of Francis M. as well as the luxury travel of later generations.

Jump to the following pages: 

FRANCIS M. DREXEL’S EARLY YEARS 

ANTHONY J. DREXEL’S FINAL DAYS IN CARLSBAD 

THE ALCEDO: WEALTH ON DISPLAY AROUND THE WORLD 

THE SULTANA: CREWMAN WILLIAM RASMUSSEN AND JOHN R. DREXEL