(WEST POINT) Trio of albums chronicling the United States Mi

Sale 2166 - Lot 301

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(WEST POINT)
Trio of albums chronicling the United States Military Academy, with more than 270 historical photographs of the pomp and circumstance associated with West Point. With scenes of proud cadets engaged in formal ceremonies, dress parades, classroom activities and other daily routines as well as artillery demonstrations; views of its Hudson River-situated campus; studies of prominent faculty members; group portraits of graduating classes, and more; many from the original negative. Silver prints, 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.) and smaller, many with captions and dates in the negative or typewritten credit, caption, and dates on verso. Oblong 4tos, leatherette. 1874-1941; printed 1920s-1941

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A pictorial history of the institution that created such renowned American leaders as Generals Grant and Lee, Pershing and MacArthur, Eisenhower and Patton, and Westmoreland and Schwarzkopf.