Antique American Ship Model of the Whaling Bark Progress, c. 1935, signed plaque reads "Progress/Walter C. Leavitt/Salem, Mass", painted wood, metal, fully rigged, the stern with eagle and "PROGRESS/NEW BEDFORD", on stand, h. 23 in., w. 34 in., d. 6 1/2 in Provenance: Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Walter D. Cockerham Note: The bark Progress was built in 1848. Sold to the US government during the Civil War, she was eventually resold for whaling and was one of the few ships that escaped the infamous whaling ship disaster of 1871 off the Alaskan coast. She was towed from New Bedford to Chicago for use as a whaling museum at the 1892 Columbian Exposition. Sadly, after the exposition, she was left for ruin in the Calumet River