[United States Military Academy (West Point, New York) Fortification. Plan, section, and elevation / drawn under the direction of D.H. Mahan, Professor of Engineering ; by Orlando M. Poe, U.S. Corps Cadets. – Historic Print
(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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Step back in time with [United States Military Academy (West Point, New York) Fortification. Plan, section, and elevation / drawn under the direction of D.H. Mahan, Professor of Engineering ; by Orlando M. Poe, U.S. Corps Cadets., a historic drawing rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[United States Military Academy (West Point, New York) Fortification. Plan, section, and elevation / drawn under the direction of D.H. Mahan, Professor of Engineering ; by Orlando M. Poe, U.S. Corps Cadets.
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This drawing is a student's exercise in military engineering: a plan, section, and elevation of half a fortification front, with its dry ditches laid out on level ground. It was drawn under the direction of Dennis Hart Mahan, the professor of engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and the draftsman, Orlando M. Poe, was a cadet. Mahan's courses taught generations of officers how to design earthen and masonry defenses using the bastion systems of earlier European engineers, and Poe later served as an engineer in the Civil War. The ink and watercolor sheet shows the lessons of the classroom in precise, hand-drawn form.
| Created / published | and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)." |
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| Medium | 1 drawing on paper : ink and watercolor. |
| Genre | Inscription: United States Military Academy. West Point. Plan and section and elevation of a half front of fortification with dry ditches on a horizontal site. Drawn under the direction of D.H. Mahan |
| Subjects | United States Military Academy--Buildings--New York (State)--West Point--1850-1860. Forts & fortifications--New York (State)--West Point--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,151 × 1,460 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216086 |
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