West Point Cadet Camp – Antique Wall Art
(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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This historic photograph of West Point Cadet Camp brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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West Point Cadet Camp
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West Point Cadet Camp is one of the Bain News Service glass negatives, a small format plate taken at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, the Army's officer-training school on the Hudson River. The caption, like the rest of the collection, comes from the news service's own notes, and the record gives no firm date, so the exact summer or year is unknown. Still, the subject places it in a long-standing tradition: the Academy ran summer encampments where cadets lived in tents, drilled and practiced field routines away from the stone barracks. Bain's staff photographed many such scenes for newspapers, so the picture offers a useful glimpse of daily military life in the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,779 × 4,222 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-40642 |
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