These photographs are dated, as best we could determine, before 1950. They include photographs relating to military legacy.
Colonel French and an Army Specialized Training Program student in the 1940s.
8 photos [no text] [probably dated between 1880-1902]: ice skating; group at attention, in uniform; group in spiked shakos outside Old Main; group in uniform at attention probably outside Old Main; Theodore Hyatt Memorial Observatory – snowy; group in uniform ice skating; football field; cadet with cannon outside Old Main and Annex
Pages from 1953 yearbook with pictures from 1894-1923
8 photos on one page: 6 are of a men at attention, in uniform, carrying a sword and wearing a cap, outside, 3 caps have white plumes, 3 have stubby black plumes (probably dated 1894 - 1923) 1 photo shows 2 men at attention in uniform with swords and white plumed caps. Last photograph is of a large house
Cavalry squad preparing for a ride
Drum and bugle corps under Sweeney, who composed "Beulah Land"
Corps passing in Review at Quicktime
Cavalry Squad on march
Battalion in line
Bugle Corp
Part of Main Parade Grounds (Cavalry Squad at Drill)
Guard Marching in Review [probably between 1880-1902]
[probably dated between 1903-1928]: 4 cadets in uniform at attention, one holds U.S. flag, another holds different flag
28 cadets in line, in uniform, at attention
Guard Mount (Sound Off) [probably dated between 1880 and 1902]
1896: "From [name illegible]. Her mother and stepfather are in the picture. Presented 5/15/69 by her son W. Price. Front text reads: PMC at Antietam National Cemetery May 19th ’96; Group shot of cadets and civilians around memorial at Antietam National Cemetery
Camp- NO Date
“Company” “D” of Battalion of Cadets Pennsylvania Military College Taken May 19, 1906 Captain= Alan Speirs. #4 1st Lieutenant= Frank M. Andrews #89 2nd Lieutenant= George A. Lowry #90 1st Sergeant= H.S. [?]uclswitz #93 2nd Sergeant= Prosper J. Bondart #8 = “Riglit…[cut off] 1st Corporal= R.T. Tumbelston #27 = “Left Guide” Corporals= James R. [cut off] John D. Augustine #109 Corporals Augustine and Hedges are Numbers 1 and 17 re[spectively (? Cut off)] Privates, from left to right = 2 = [W?]illis #119. 3= Kelly #81 4=Esselman #100 5= Regan [?] #91 7=Blumenthal #103 8=Johmon [?] #85 9=Clark #67 10=Nesbit #44 12= Julian #51 13= Brown #45 14= Moore #79 15= Williams #123[?] 18= Prince #136 19= Scott #118 20= Green #23 [#1, 6, 11, 16, 17, 21 are cut off]
Ed. Backes ’20 (on horse) Chuck Ardussi Taken Oct. 1919
P.M.C. around the turn of the century: infantry in spiked helmets; cavalry drill, artillery in front of Old Main
[probably dated between 1903-1928] “Charge”; Machine Guns in Action; “Pass in Review”; Mounted Exercises; “Dismount Carriage,” Machine Gun Drill; Theodore Hyatt Memorial Observatory; Testing Machines in Engineering Laboratory.
Cavalry squad [no date]
Officers Row Waterman Monument Camp Silas G. Comfort Valley Forge, Pa., Saturday, June 3rd to Friday, June 9th, 1911 General Encampment of the Corps Mount Joy
Encampment of the Corps of Cadets, Pennsylvania Military College, Years 1911 and 1912, at Valley Forge, PA.
[probably dated before 1880] 34 men at attention, in uniform with disassembled cannon in a field
[Probably dated between 1880-1902] PMC Around the turn of the century; infantry in spiked helmets, cavalry drill, artillery; in front of Old Main
[Probably dated between 1882-1903] photograph of men standing in formation on a road
Picture of canon. Caption reads: "One of the Field Pieces used in Artillery Drill"
Men on horses, lined up in a row.
Colonel Clarence Starr with others in military attire, dated between 1941 - 1943.
Rider jumping a fence with his horse.
Photograph of cadets with guns and drum, probably at summer camp in the 1930s.
Cadets in formation.
ASTP 1943 photo donated by Mike Mayo