[West Point - Map] Map of the Military Reservation, West Point, N.Y. [bound in:] Annual Report of the Board of Visitors to the United States Military Academy, Made to The Secretary of War for the Year 1888. This item is unavailable.[West Point - Map] Map of the Military Reservation, West Point, N.Y. [bound in:] Annual Report of the Board of Visitors to the United States Military Academy, Made to The Secretary of War for the Year 1888

A folding lithographed map of the United States Military Academy reservation at West Point, issued with the 1888 Annual Report of the Board of Visitors. It outlines government property on the west bank of the Hudson, sho. Octavo. Original printed wrappers. 9 pages plus folding map. Couple minor edge nicks to wrappers. Overall clean and very good. A folding lithographed map of the United States Military Academy reservation at West Point, issued with the 1888 Annual Report of the Board of Visitors. It outlines government property on the west bank of the Hudson, showing the academy grounds, roads, streams, and adjoining lands south toward Highland Falls. Prepared for official review and public reporting, it captures the post and campus near the end of the nineteenth century.The map is spare and readable, with a neat hand-lettered title, plain border, and a double-arrow north point. Bold hachures render the Hudson River bluffs. Buildings and parade areas appear in plan; roads and footpaths are traced, some named. Reservation limits are emphasized, and privately held tracts, including the prominently labeled Kinsley Estate, are enclosed. Streams running to Popolopen Creek are shown, along with the Village of Highland Falls. Lithographed by the American Graphic Company of New York, the map accompanied the Government Printing Office edition of the Annual Report of the Board of Visitors to the United States Military Academy for the Year 1888, prepared for the Secretary of War. The Board s annual inspections covered instruction, discipline, facilities, and land needs. This plan documents the Academy s footprint, circulation, and neighboring civilian holdings, providing a clear view of West Point after the Civil War and before the larger campus expansions of the 1890s.Founded in 1802, the Academy occupies commanding terrain in the Hudson Highlands. During the 1880s the reservation grew gradually to meet training requirements, and maps such as this supported requests for acquisitions and road improvements.…