United States Military Academy

West Point

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West Point Military Academy

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Old casemates, interior Fort Putnam, West Point

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View on the Hudson, West Point

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Military academy West Point N.Y.

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Fort Clinton, West Point [N.Y.]

Illus. in: The Portfolio, 1811, v. 5. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: NY West Point; Forts...; Rare Bk. Div.; Shelf.

Fort Putnam, West Point

Illus. in: The Portfolio, 1811, v. 5. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: NY West Point; Forts...; Rare Bk. Div.; Shelf.

[Cadets' monument at West Point]

Forms part of: John Rubens Smith Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibit loan 4105-L.

Encampment at West Point

Drawing shows tents pitched on the grounds of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York. Title from item. Initialed in pencil. Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory, no. 590 (DLC/PP-1995:141.590). Forms part ... More

View from Fishkill looking to West Point / painted by W.G. Wall ; engr...

Print shows a view of the Hudson River from above Fishkill, New York, looking south along the Hudson River toward West Point. A sidewheel steamship heads south on the river, and a cowherd tends three cows at th... More

John Q. Adams, President of the United States T. Gimbrede Professor of...

Print shows John Qincey Adams, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, with a short pillar pedestal in the foreground, on which rests a book and paper, and a chair labeled "U.S." with an ... More

Major Genl. A. Macomb / T. Sully pinxt ; on stone Childs direx.

Print shows Alexander Macomb, half-length portrait, facing slightly right, with arms folded across chest, wearing military uniform. Title from item. Painted by Thomas Sully in 1829 as Macomb assumed the positio... More

Looking up the Hudson from West Point U.S. July 24th 1846

Drawing showing sailboats on the Hudson River at West Point. Purchase; William Reese Company; 2000; (DLC/PP-2000:086). Title from item. Alternate title inscribed in pencil on lower right. Inscribed in pencil on... More

Approaching West Point, going down the Hudson, July 24, 1846

Drawing showing a boat traveling on the Hudson River and a view of the United States Military Academy at West Point in the distance. Purchase; William Reese Company; 2000; (DLC/PP-2000:086). No. "5". Title from... More

Monterey, as seen from a house-top in the main plaza, to the west. Oct...

Prints show a cityscape view from a rooftop, looking west, of the main plaza of Monterrey, Mexico, with soldiers and artillery stationed around the plaza, and with mountains in the background. Title from item. ... More

Monterey sic, from Independence Hill, in rear of the Bishop's Palace. ...

Title from item. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. Inscribed in ink at bottom: 206. Deposited in the Clerk's Office for the So. Dist. of New York June 22, 1847. Includes a key with numbers ... More

Valley towards Saltillo, from near the base of "Palace Hill," at Monte...

205 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. Printed on lower right corner: [No. 3]. Inscribed in ink at bottom: 205. Deposited in the Clerk's Office for th... More

West Point Hudson River

Sketch shows West Point, New York from across the Hudson River. The United States Military Academy is in the distant hills above the river. Wallis was a British Commissioner from the Foreign Office to the Unite... More

Photograph of the solar eclipse of May 26, 1854, taken at West Point

Illus. in: Bartlett's photographs of solar eclipse of May 26, 1854, taken at West Point (New York, V. Prevost, 1854), no. 16.

Erie Canal lock. Plan, elevation, and sections

Drawn at West Point. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, ... More

Hon. Isaac Ingalls Stevens

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Born Mass 1818; Grad. West Point 1839; Engineer on staff of Gen. Scott in Mexico; Asst. Coast Survey; Gov. Wash Territory 53-57; M.C. 57-61; U.S.A. Col. of ... More

Graduating song, class of 1855 / lith. of Sarony & Co., N.Y.

Sheet music cover showing two West Point cadets standing by tree, with building and Hudson River in background. From drawing attributed to James McNeill Whistler.

Map of the Springfield & Deep Run estates on the Coal Lands of the N. ...

Outline map of southeastern Virginia showing railroad connections in Richmond, Petersburg, and West Point. Indicates the Lynchburgh canal. Scale ca. 1:320,000. From Report on the Property of the New York & Rich... More

U.S. steam frigate Mississippi passing Punta Tristao. N. west point of...

Print shows the American side wheel steam frigate Mississippi on rough seas as it passes Tristram Point, Madeira. Title from item. Plate from: Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China Se... More

Capt. Charles Griffin, Commanded West Point Battery at Bull Run

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Corresponding print is in LOT 4192. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information... More

Hon. Adelbert Ames of Miss

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: Sen. Ames. General in U.S. Army; Gov. Mississippi 187 - 1874; Born in Rockland, Me 1835; West Point 1861,... More

Capt. Charles Griffin, Commanded West Point Battery at Bull Run

[Three U.S. Navy ships, from left, the Macedonian, the Dale, and the S...

U.S. Military Academy cadets

Photograph showing a group portrait of cadets possibly from West Point. Title from item.

Battle of Brick House Point, West Point, King William County, VA

Significance: 1) When the Confederate army abandoned its defenses at Yorktown and withdrew up the Peninsula toward Richmond, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan mounted an amphibious operation to disrupt his enemy's ... More

City Point, Cooking, West Point, Virginia

No. 2597. Title from item. Purchase; L.C. Handy, Washington, D.C.; 1905 Nov. 25; (DLC/PP-1905: 42760A)

George Lewis Gillespie, West Point cadet, in uniform

Photograph shows identified cadet who enlisted into the 1st Regular Army Engineers Battalion as Second Lieutenant after graduation from West Point, was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel during the Civil War, and w... More

Survey of the western part of Chesterfield Co. Virginia /

Shows the names of some residents. Relief shown by hachures. Oriented with north toward upper right. Blue-line print. "Map from the Confederate Engineer Bureau in Richmond, Va. General J.F. Gilmer, chief engine... More

Map of Louisa County, Virginia /

Shows names of some residents. Relief shown by hachures. Oriented with north toward upper left. Blue-line print. "Map from the Confederate Engineer Bureau in Richmond, Va. General J.F. Gilmer, chief engineer. P... More

Map of Spotsylvania /

Relief shown by hachures. Shows the names of some residents. Oriented with north toward upper left. "Map from the Confederate Engineer Bureau in Richmond, Va. General J.F. Gilmer, chief engineer. Presented to t... More

Survey of Prince George Co., Virginia /

Shows names of some residents. Relief shown by hachures. Oriented with north toward upper right. "Approved June 25th 1864 ... ." At head of title: Chief Engineer's Office D.N.V. Col. J.F. Gilmer, Chief Engr. "... More

Map of Amherst and Nelson.

Shows names of some residents. Relief shown by hachures. Two sheets joined to form 1, mounted on cloth. "Map from the Confederate Engineer Bureau in Richmond, Va. General J.F. Gilmer Chief Engineer. Presented t... More

Slow & steady wins the race

Another variation on McClellan trying to straddle two horses. (See "Little Mac's Double Feat of Equitation," no. 1864-25.) The artist here predicts the victory of incumbent President Abraham Lincoln over his ri... More

Map of Roanoke County, Va. /

Relief shown by hachures. Shows the names of some residents. Blue-line print. Oriented with north toward right. "Maps from the Confederate Engineer Bureau in Richmond, Va General J.F. Gilmer, Chief Engineer. Pr... More

Map of Powhatan County /

Shows the names of some residents. Relief shown by hachures. Oriented with north toward upper left. Blue-line print. "Map from the Confederate Engineer Bureau in Richmond, Va. General J.F. Gilmer, chief enginee... More

Map of Campbell Co. /

Shows names of some residents. Relief shown by hachures. Blue-line print. "Map from the Confederate Engineer Bureau in Richmond, Va. General J.F. Gilmer Chief Engineer. Presented to the West Point Military Acad... More

Map of Amherst & Nelson cos. /

Shows names of some residents. Relief shown by hachures. Blue-line print. "Map from the Confederate Engineer Bureau in Richmond, Va. General J.F. Gilmer, chief engineer. Presented to the West Point Military Aca... More

Map of Culpeper, Madison and Rappahannock /

Relief shown by hachures. Shows the names of some residents. At head of title: Chief Engineer's Office D.N.V. Maj. Gen J.F. Gilmer, chief engineer. "Map from the Confederate Engineer Bureau in Richmond, Va. Ge... More

Map of Stafford County /

Relief shown by hachures. Shows the names of some residents. Oriented with north toward right. At head of title: Maj. Gen. J.F. Gilmer. Chf. of Eng. Bur. "Map from the Confederate Engineer Bureau in Richmond, V... More

Map of King William County /

Relief shown by hachures. Shows the names of some residents. Oriented with north toward upper left. At head of title: Maj. Gen. J.F. Gilmer Chief Engineer. "Property of Mrs. J.F. Gilmer 126 State Street Savanna... More

Map of Botetourt County /

Relief shown by hachures. Shows the names of some residents. Oriented with north toward upper right. Blue-line print. "Map from the Confederate Engineer Bureau in Richmond, Va. General J.F. Gilmer chief enginee... More

Hudson River, from West-Point

Photograph shows landscape with a man sitting on a rock, looking toward the Hudson River, West Point, New York. Title from item. Publisher attribution based on provenance. Card number: "No. 716." Gottheim colle... More

Ruins of Fort Putnam, West Point

Photograph shows ruins of Fort Putnam, West Point, New York. Title from item (on back of card). Publisher attribution based on provenance. Card number: "635" Gottheim collection code: GNS 8. Forms part of the L... More

Gen. Wm. Tecumseh Sherman, U.S.A

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: W.T. Sherman. Date based on three-button grouping of a Lieutenant General on Sherman's uniform with the r... More

General Wm. T. Sherman, U.S.A

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: Genl. Sherman; Wm. T. Sherman. Date based on three-button grouping of a Lieutenant General on Sherman's u... More

General William T. Sherman, U.S.A

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Date based on three-button grouping of a Lieutenant General on Sherman's uniform with the rank tabs of a General of the Army, indicating that the photograph... More

View on the Hudson - West Point

Print showing steamboats and sailboats on the Hudson River, people along the shore in the foreground, and West Point in the background. Title from item.

Private Louis H. Benz, chief bugler at West Point Military Academy, wi...

Title devised by Library staff. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:144) Purchased from: Medhurst & Co., North Liberty, Iowa, August 2015. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photogr... More

View on the Hudson, near Catskill after Eglau ; chromo-lithographed an...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Prang, L. & Co. Title and statement of responsibility from publisher's label on back of print. Title on stone: On... More

View on the Hudson, near West Point, no. 1 Eglau ; H. Harring Chr

Print shows a landscape view of a small homestead or farm with a view of the Hudson River through an opening in the trees. Four people have posed for the picture and two others are sitting off to the right, enj... More

The Hudson, from Cozzen's Hotel, West Point after Eglau

Print shows a landscape view with Cozzen's Hotel at West Point, on a bluff, overlooking the Hudson River, New York, with a man and a woman sitting on rocks on the left below the hotel and sailboats and steamboa... More

Sunday afternoon on the West Point Road / Eglau.

Print shows travelers resting on a dirt road through a mountainous region with a distant view of a river or lake. D1757 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1... More

The "best friend," the first locomotive built in the United States for...

Illustration showing people on first excursion trip of the South Carolina Railroad, 15th January 1831; it was built at the West Point Foundery Shops in New York City. Illus. in: The history of the first locomot... More

The Centennial. General view from George's Hill showing camp of West P...

Stereograph showing view over the fairgrounds, including a crowd watching exercises of the West Point cadets. Geo. Barker, photographer, Niagara Falls, New York. No. 1016. Title from item.

Our Indian policy - one at a time - next!

Caricature showing Indians "West Point killers" shooting at U.S. Army soldier standing on rock "slaughter pen trap". Other soldiers are stationed at posts from 5 to 80 miles.

The West Point outrage - the Court of Inquiry in session [with insert ...

Wood engraving after drawing by W.A. Rogers. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, (1880 May 1., p. 285. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Univ.; Educ., mili.; Courts; African... More

Running the guantlet. Special course for colored cadets at West Point

Caricature showing African American man being beaten as he goes for commission. Color lithograph by J.A. Wales. Illus. in: Puck, 1880 April 21, cover, p. 105. Ref. copy may be in NEGROES IN THE MILITARY (Search... More

Major Alfred Mordecai, West Point, 1823 / F. Gutekunst, Philadelphia.

Print showing Alfred Mordecai, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. Title from item.

Ferry and West Point

"W.H.J. Phot. Co." on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04008. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

North from the battery, West Point

Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Man by cannon at United States Military Academy. Negative taped to second sheet of glass. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 07871. Gift; Stat... More

North from the battery, West Point

Headquarters, West Point

Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). View at United States Military Academy. "7619" on negative. Negative taped to second sheet of glass. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 07872.... More

West Point from Storm King

"W.H.J. Phot. Co." on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04011. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Ferry and West Point

North from West Point

Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898); title in catalog continues: from the batteries. View from United States Military Academy. Negative broken and taped to second sheet of... More

West Point from Storm King

North from West Point

Headquarters, West Point

[North from the battery, West Point]

North from the battery, West Point

Title and attribution to Jackson based on similarity to photo nos. 7870-7871 in Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). From United States Military Academy. Battery is part of United States Military Academy... More

Light battery

Cadets on horseback and with cannons, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York, class of 82. In album: U.S. Military Academy, West Point, Class of 82, Edw. Burr, p. 55.

Cadet room

Cadet's room, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York, class of 82. In album: U.S. Military Academy, West Point, Class of 82, Edw. Burr, p. 69.

No more of those hideous monuments! / Gillam.

Illustration shows Puck grabbing the arm of Uncle Sam who is staring in dismay at statues labeled "Coggswell, W.H. Seward Madison Square, Admiral Dupont Washington D.C., Custer West Point, George Washington Uni... More

U.S. Grant / J. Keppler.

Illustration shows Ulysses S. Grant, bust portrait, facing slightly right, in oval with ribbon labeled with the places visited following his presidency; this portrait is surrounded by scenes showing Grant's bir... More

West Point / Andrew Melrose ; painted by Andrew Melrose.

Print shows sailboats and steamboats on the Hudson River with West Point and the Hudson Highlands in the background. Title from item. Caption continues: On account of its celebrated military school, historic as... More

[West Point: Cadets' room in barracks]

Copyright by Seneca Ray Stoddard, Glens Falls, N.Y. No. 110. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Military education; Universities; New York West Point; Shelf.

West Point. Grand Hall. Returning from breakfast. U.S. Military Academ...

Photo by S.R. Stoddard. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

West Point. Road to South Dock

Photoprint copyrighted by S.R. Stoddard, Glens Falls, N.Y. No. 101. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Roads; Geogr.

West Point. Embryo Cavalry

Cadets exercising on long horse. Photo copyrighted by S.R. Stoddard, Glens Falls, N.Y. No. 147. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Military education U.S. 1889; ... More

West Point, The Area. "Walking extras." Cadets walking disciplinary dr...

Photo by S.R. Stoddard. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[West Point: Cadets marching to dinner]

Copyright by Seneca Ray Stoddard, Glens Falls, N.Y. No. 142. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Military education; Universities; New York West Point; Shelf.

West Point from Eagles' Rest

"W.H. Jackson & Co., Denver." and "01516" on negative. Commissioned by New York Central Railroad, June-July, 1890. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 01516. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

West Point, N.Y., battalion passing in review

Title from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 33973; supplied by cataloger. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Ferry at West Point, N.Y.]

North from West Point

Sidewheeler McDonald towing sailing ships. Listed in Detroit Publishing Co. negative log as no. C-6058. Probably published as a single plate and as a center section of a three-part panorama, Det. Pub. Co. no. 6... More

North from West Point

West Point, N.Y., camp of cadets

Title from jacket. "2660" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 33984; devised by cataloger. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

West Point from Eagles' Rest

West Shore station, West Point

"7614" on negative. Possibly at United States Military Academy. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 30740. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[West Point, N.Y., battalion passing in review]

North from West Point

West Shore station, West Point

West Point ferry, the Highlander

Negative broken and taped to second sheet of glass. "7613" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 30739. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

West Point ferry, the Highlander

North from West Point

The Hudson river from West Point. Side-wheeler "McDonald" towing sailboats. Listed in Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). "W.H. Jackson and Co., Phot. Denver, Colo." Commissioned by New York Central Rai... More