CDV PHOTO OF WEST POINT BARRACKS

CDV PHOTO OF WEST POINT BARRACKS

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Item Code: 1323-226

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This is a carte de visite (CDV) photographic print mounted on a thin card. It measures 2.5” × 4”.

The photograph shows a long, multi-story stone building in the castellated Gothic Revival style. It has crenellated (battlemented) rooflines, projecting tower bays, and rows of tall, evenly spaced windows.

The print is mounted within a double gilt-and-brown ruled border. It has the warm sepia tone typical of albumen prints, with some light foxing (brown spotting).

On the back, in faint pencil, “Barracks, West Point.” At the bottom is a small printed imprint, “Rockwood, Photographer, 839 Broadway, N.Y.”

The building matches the Cadet Barracks at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York. Designed under Superintendent Richard Delafield, it was completed around 1851. Its fortress-like Gothic style set the architectural tone that West Point still follows today. The open ground in front is consistent with the Plain, the academy’s parade field.

George G. Rockwood was one of New York City’s most prolific 19th-century photographers. He is often credited as an early promoter of the carte de visite in America around 1859. The 839 Broadway address corresponds to his studio of the 1860s, before he later moved to Union Square.

This barracks housed the cadets who became the commanders of the Civil War. Men such as Philip Sheridan, John Bell Hood, James McPherson, J.E.B. Stuart, and George Armstrong Custer lived and drilled here in the 1850s and early 1860s. Robert E. Lee served as West Point’s superintendent from 1852 to 1855, when the building was new. [jet] [ph:L]

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