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Retired Lt. Col. Richard “Gene” Smith, former 50th

Retired Lt. Col. Richard “Gene” Smith, former 50th Flying Training Squadron Commander, shows Courtney Cox, editor of Town and Gown magazine, documents and photos of when he was a prisoner of war, Oct. 17, 2017,... More

West Point from Storm King - Public domain scenic drawing

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George Washington Papers, Series 4, General Correspondence: Alexander ...

Report on Artificers and Stores in the Quartermaster General's Department at West Point, New York

Sketch of the rebel works at West Point as taken from the description ...

Scale ca. 1:11,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Has watermarks. Relief shown by hachures. Shows fortifications and amounts of ordnance. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1203 Available also through the Library ... More

Plan de West-Point du nord, levé a vue.

Scale ca. 1:17,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Relief shown by shading. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Shows fortifications. Sectioned and mounted on cloth backing. LC ... More

Plan de West-Point du Sud. - Public domain old map

Scale ca. 1:18,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Sectioned and mounted on cloth backing. Relief shown by shading. Lists artillery included in batteries at West Point. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1... More

Batteries de West-point au haut de la Rivière d'York.

Scale ca. 1:5,400. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Includes index to types of guns mounted. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1458 Available also through the Lib... More

Carte detaillée de West Point sur la rivière d'York au confluent des R...

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Plan de West-Pointe du nord levé a vue.

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West Point, surveyed a coup d'oeil the 24th October, laid down the 27t...

Scale ca. 1:21,000. Manuscript, pencil. Has watermarks. Relief shown by hachures. Oriented with north to the right. Includes "References" and notes on structure, strength, and location of fortifications and pro... More

Sketch of West Point. - Public domain vintage map

Scale ca. 1:20,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink on tracing paper. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown by hachures. Shows fortifications. Based on John Hinncks' West Point. 1783. LC Maps of North America,... More

West Point. Historic map, Library of Congress

Scale ca. 1:20,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north to the right. Has watermarks. Relief shown by shading. Shows fortifications. Includes profiles of "Fort Putnam" and "Fort Willit."... More

Military academy West Point N.Y., engraving, Library of Congress

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West Point - Print, Library of Congress collection

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Old casemates, interior Fort Putnam, West Point

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West Point Military Academy - Public domain graphic arts, Library of C...

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View on the Hudson, West Point - Public domain graphic arts, Library o...

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Fort Clinton, West Point [N.Y.], engraving, Library of Congress

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 - Public domain book illustration

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 - Public domain scan / drawing

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

William Guy Wall - View from Fishkill Looking to West Point

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William Guy Wall - West Point (No. 16 of The Hudson River Portfolio)

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William Guy Wall - West Point (No. 16 of The Hudson River Portfolio)

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View from Fishkill Looking To West-Point (No. 15 of The Hudson River P...

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View from Fishkill Looking To West-Point (No. 15 of The Hudson River P...

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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

C.B. Hatch to the Secretary of State, 10 September 1828

United States Military Academy at West Point, Looking North

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United States Military Academy at West Point, Looking South

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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. Painted by Thomas Sully in 1829 as Macomb assumed the position of Major Gener... More

West Point from "The American Landscape, Nº I ... Engraved from origin...

This image has been taken from scan 000024 from "The American Landscape, Nº I ... Engraved from original and accurate drawings ... With historical and topographical illustrations [by W. C. Bryant]". The title a... More

Plan des forts, batteries et poste de West-Point, 1780

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West Point, from Phillipstown - Public domain dedication, National Gal...

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Crow's Nest and the Point of Constitution Island opposite West Point.

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West Point from the North.

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Letter from Euphemia Tudor, West Point, [New York], to Anne Warren, Ju...

Euphemia Tudor writes to Anne Warren Weston in regards to being sorry to learn that Anne is going abroad. She had hoped that Anne would visit her this summer. She wants to know when Anne will reach Staten Islan... More

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Constitution Island and Foundry from West Point, New York

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View of the North River from the North West Corner of Fort Clinton—Wes...

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West Point from "A Book of the United States: exhibiting its geography...

This image has been taken from scan 000488 from "A Book of the United States: exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ... together with a condensed history of the land ... the biography... More

Drawing of a River Town by Ulysses S. Grant

This drawing of a river town was created by Ulysses S. Grant while a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (1839-1843).

West Point from "A Book of the United States; exhibiting its geography...

This image has been taken from scan 000447 from "A Book of the United States; exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution, and government; ... together with a condensed history of the land, ... the biogra... More

West Point from "A Book of the United States; exhibiting its geography...

This image has been taken from scan 000490 from "A Book of the United States; exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution, and government; ... together with a condensed history of the land, ... the biogra... More

[Topographic map of West Point, Constitution Island, and vicinity, N.Y...

Relief shown by hachures. Title devised by cataloger. Pen-and-ink and lead pencil. Date in lead pencil follows the inked signature. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gif... 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". Exhibited... 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). Alternate title inscribed in pencil on lower right. Inscribed in pencil on lower left corn... More

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

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 printed on the r... 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. Printed on lower... More

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

205 U.S. Copyright Office. 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 the So. Dist. of N... More

Emma Catherine (Manley) Embury, West Point, NY., autograph letter sign...

Has been prevented by illness from writing anything, but offers a poem for the Osgood memorial volume [The Memorial, New York 1851]. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Panorama of cadets encampment, West Point, N. Y.

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West Point and the Hudson River, New York

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Emma Catherine (Manley) Embury, West Point, NY., autograph letter sign...

Has been prevented by illness from writing anything, but offers a poem for the Osgood memorial volume [The Memorial, New York 1851]. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

West Point Hudson River - Public domain scenic drawing

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.

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.

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

Honorable Isaac Ingalls Stevens. Mathew Brady photograph of American C...

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

West Point, Hudson River, N.Y., Cadets' Drill, from the Shore-Battery

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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. Plate from: Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China Seas and Japan ...... More

Library Building, West Point, N.Y.

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Hudson River Portfolio: Looking South from Battery Knox, West Point

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Homer Winslow. A cadet hop at West Point

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A Cadet Hop at West Point (Harper's Weekly, Vol. III)

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Winslow Homer - A Cadet Hop at West Point

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View at West Point, Looking North.

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[Scene at West Point: men in unform with cannon in field]

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West Point from Fort Putnam.. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public doma...

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[Hudson River, West Point]. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public domain...

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Honorable Adelbert Ames of Miss - Public domain portrait photograph

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

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

[Kosciuszko's Monument, West Point], J. Paul Getty Museum

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West Point from Fort Putnam.. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public doma...

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

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Views at West Point, N.Y. Military Academy.

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[Seige Battery, West Point]. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public domai...

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Up the River from West Point.. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public dom...

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George F. Card to Abraham Lincoln, Sunday, July 22, 1860 (Wants to at...

Beauties of The Hudson. The Indian Fall, Opposite West Point.

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Garrison Ferry, West Point.. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public domai...

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The Indian Fall, Opposite West Point.

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Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: G...

Wants to attend West Point

West Point from Fort Putnam.. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public doma...

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Captured Mexican Mortars, West Point.

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Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: C...

Seeks appointment to West Point for his son

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

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

Looking up the Hudson, from below Cemetery, West Point.

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Abraham Lincoln, Friday, August 16, 1861 (Memorandum on West Point Ap...

On the Hudson near West Point - Louis Prang company chromolithogrpah

The Louis Prang company - was a printing and publishing company in Boston, Massachusetts, known for its high-quality lithographic reproductions of artworks and its production of mass-market Christmas cards usin... More

Cable that was stretched across the Hudson, West Point.

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City Point, Cooking, West Point, Virginia

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

George Armstrong Custer in West Point Cadet Uniform. Graduation photo...

LIBI_00019_00307; This item is a copy of a card-mounted albumen photograph of George A. Custer in one-half seated view and wearing his West Point cadet uniform. The oval-shaped photograph is 5 x 7" (7 3/4 x 9 ... More

Hudson from Cozzens Hotel, West Point

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

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On the Hudson near West Point - Louis Prang company chromolithogrpah

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U.S. Military Academy cadets. American Civil War 1861-1865. (Andrew J....

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

Captured Mexican Mortars, West Point.

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