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Cadets at U.S. Naval Academy – Historic Print

Cadets at U.S. Naval Academy, [between 1890 and 1901] — historic photograph
Cadets at U.S. Naval Academy, [between 1890 and 1901]. 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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The Detroit Publishing Company, based in Detroit, made this glass-plate negative of cadets at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, sometime between 1890 and 1901, a date inferred from the company's own catalog of that era. The academy, founded in 1845 and home to midshipmen training for careers at sea, is shown here in a formal military setting that the subject headings describe as a parade or ceremony. The company was known for large-format views of American places, and its work offers a useful record of how the Academy looked and how its cadets were drilled at the turn of the century.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1901]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDate based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). X 41" and "no. 16" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021388. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsUnited States Naval Academy. Students. Universities & colleges. Military education. Military parades & ceremonies.United States--Maryland--Annapolis.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 767 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-64487

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