(ARMY) West Point photo album yearbook for the class of 188

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(ARMY.) West Point photo album / yearbook for the class of 1888. 75 photographs inserted into 22 mat sheets: 69 portraits of faculty and cadets, each about 5 1/2 x 4 inches, and 6 group portraits and views about 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, all laid into mat with inked captions below, with printed title page and manuscript index list on verso. Oblong 4to, original gilt pictorial calf with metal clasps, worn and lacking backstrip; after the main portrait section, several photographs have been removed and/or imperfectly reinserted including some dated as late as 1902. New York: Pach Brothers, 1888

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Among the better-known cadets were Indian fighter and WWI Major General Robert Lee Howze and Army Chief of Staff Peyton C. March. Faculty included Major General Wesley Merritt and engineering instructor George Washington Goethals.