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High School Cadet Corps, 1895 - M Street High School [Washington, D.C.] – Historic Photo Reproduction

High School Cadet Corps, 1895 - M Street High School [Washington, D.C.], 1895 — historic print
High School Cadet Corps, 1895 - M Street High School [Washington, D.C.], 1895. Historic print from the Washington DC collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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High School Cadet Corps, 1895 - M Street High School [Washington, D.C.]

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M Street High School, the District's public secondary school for Black students, is the setting for this 1895 halftone of its cadet corps in uniform. Military drill was common in American schools of the period, but in a segregated capital it also signaled discipline and respectability. The print appears in the papers of Christian Fleetwood, a Civil War veteran and Medal of Honor recipient, though the caption details are unverified.

Created / published1895
Medium1 photomechanical print: halftone.
NotesIllus. in: The Christian Fleetwood Papers, Box 1, p. 47 (MMC - 130). This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: MSS Div.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,201 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-152323

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