CDV OF VERY YOUNG PMA CADET, WEST CHESTER, PA

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Item Code: 1266-770

A fine carte de viste (cdv) of a cadet in uniform. Studio view posed sitting in chair. Full view with cadet wearing jacket, trousers, kepi, waist belt with two-piece buckle, and bayonet. Uniform jacket is typical of many military school uniforms with three rows of buttons and plenty of thin black cord sewn along button rows and at cuffs; all ending in trefoils. Trousers have a wide black stripe running down the outside seam. Kepi features round pompom and script letters “PMA”. His waist belt has a two-piece interlocking “eagle” buckle and has an early type (no locking ring) of socket bayonet attached at the hip. Image is crisp and clear.

The plain mount remains in decent condition; it may have been slightly trimmed around edges. There is some edge wear at top, left corner and a minor crease across at cadet’s waist level that does not effect the image. The photographer’s backmark is “E. WOODWARD, Photographer, No. 1, cor. Church & Gay Sts., WEST CHESTER.” A name in period ink is below: “Mrs. Wm. Erston.”

The current Pennsylvania Military College dates back to 1821 when John Bullock established the Bullock School for Boys to prepare young men for “entry to college.” In 1853, the school became Hyatt’s Select School for Boys under the direction of Theodore Hyatt, who purchased the school, which had been renamed the Alsop School for Boys when Samuel Alsop became headmaster. Hyatt found his pupils performing drills with broomsticks in the gym in the fall of 1858. He then introduced military training to “develop the muscles, expand the chest, and impart an erect gentlemanly carriage ….”

In 1862, the academy moved to West Chester, Pennsylvania and the school’s name changed to the Pennsylvania Military Academy (PMA). PMA enrolled preparatory as well as college students until 1892, when it developed a more collegiate program. When the school moved to Chester in 1868, it was renamed the Pennsylvania Military College.   [jet][ph:L]

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