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[Cadet drill on parade ground, West Point, N.Y.] – Vintage Print

[Cadet drill on parade ground, West Point, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Cadet drill on parade ground, West Point, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Cadet drill on parade ground, West Point, N.Y.]

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Cadets drilling on the parade ground at West Point, New York, are the subject of this 5-by-7-inch glass negative, made between 1900 and 1915. The United States Military Academy, founded in 1802 on the Hudson River, trained officers through daily drill and formal dress parades, and the catalog suggests this may be one of the ceremonial formations. The negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, which sold views of American places as prints and postcards in the early twentieth century. Its title was supplied by a cataloger, so the scene is best read as a record of cadet life in that period.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesCorresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-31513. Title devised by cataloger. Videodisc image for transparency is laterally reversed. United States Military Academy, possibly a dress parade. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 073018. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsMilitary education. Military training.United States--New York (State)--West Point.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 704 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76994

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