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THB[CIVIL WAR] 1865 View of West Point Cadets by George K. Warren
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LiveApr 25, 2026
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[George Kendall Warren] Vignetted albumen print showing West Point cadets in uniform posed with a fire pumper. N.p. [Cambridge, Massachusetts]: George Kendall Warren, n.d. Contemporary inscription to mount recto reads, "West Point, NY / by G. K. Warren / ca: 1865."
Though best known for his landscape photography, particularly his views of the American West and visual documentation of the transcontinental railroad, George Kendall Warren (1834-1884) also worked as a portrait photographer, specializing specialized in college-album photography. Before the Civil War, he traveled to college campuses including Dartmouth, Princeton, Williams, Harvard, Brown, Yale, and Rutgers, capturing not only studio portraits but also views of campus life and architecture.
After the war, Warren traveled in 1868 to West Point, New York, where he took over 150 photographs of students, graduates, and campus views of the United States Military Academy. The plates in the resulting album, United States Military Academy. Class of 1868, are similarly vignetted to the print offered here, though more staid and formal. This image is marked by the varied and dynamic poses of the cadets on and around an elaborate fire pumper, with recessed, rounded-arch windows visible on the building in the background. The text "FRANKLIN" is visible to the upper register of the pumper, along with several painted panels and applied brass ornaments. Lavish decoration was commonly seen on early fire engines to showcase patriotism and civic pride during parades or ceremonies.
[Civil War, Union, Confederate] [Photography, Early Photography, Historic Photography, Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Tintypes, Cased Images, Union Cases, Albumen Photographs, CDVs, Carte de Visites, Cartes de Visite, Carte-de-visite, Cartes-de-visite, CDV, Cabinet Cards, Stereoviews, Stereocards]
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