Item #23381 West Point Photograph Album and Scrapbook, 1928 - 1931. West Point, "A" Book.
West Point Photograph Album and Scrapbook, 1928 - 1931.
West Point Photograph Album and Scrapbook, 1928 - 1931.
West Point Photograph Album and Scrapbook, 1928 - 1931.
West Point Photograph Album and Scrapbook, 1928 - 1931.
West Point Photograph Album and Scrapbook, 1928 - 1931.
West Point Photograph Album and Scrapbook, 1928 - 1931.
West Point Photograph Album and Scrapbook, 1928 - 1931.
West Point Photograph Album and Scrapbook, 1928 - 1931.
West Point Photograph Album and Scrapbook, 1928 - 1931.
West Point Photograph Album and Scrapbook, 1928 - 1931.

West Point Photograph Album and Scrapbook, 1928 - 1931.

Hardcover. One of the best West Point albums of the period we have encountered, with a wonderful mix of ephemera including newspaper clippings, printed dinner and dance invitations, movie programs, real photographs, and even a fabric swatch from a plebe uniform and an Army Marksmanship Badge, all documenting cadet life in the 1920s.

The West Point gold crested album opens with Raymond S. Pratt as a Yearling, with photographs of Pratt with the Yearling Guard and of the campus year round, including a large image of him with his father, labeled "June Week 1928". Contents include a West Point Songbook, drill roll rosters, Horse Show tickets, menus, programs (graduation, exercise, theater etc), a cartridge box label, a rifle score book, Camp Illumination ticket, dance card, leave papers, inspection notice, sports schedule, railroad car poster for football trip, train tickets, USMA logos and maps.

The real photographs (more than 90) include campus views, formations, parades for the alumni and graduation, individual cadets, plebe hikes, Lake Popolopen, bayonet drill, uniforms, bivouacs, and scenic landscape views taken on furlough at Lake MacDonald (Glacier National Park).

Raymond Pratt served in World War II and the Korean War. He worked as instructor at the Field Artillery School (Fort Sill, Oklahoma), was the XO of the 2nd Communications Regiment, a staff officer at European Command, and a member of the Military Advisory Group in Korea. He retired in 1956 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

Oblong folio album (17 x 12.1/2"). Black leatherette boards with lighter colored leather binding cord, possibly replaced. 42pp light gray craft paper with over 90 real photographs, ranging in size from 2 x 2 1/2" to 9 1/2 x 8". Rear album cover has portion rubbed, with some loss to black surface, not obtrusive. Very good condition. Item #23381

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