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LINE OF CADETS. No finer body of representative young Americans can be found than are to be seen qualifying themselves for officers' commissions in the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service. The government school near Baltimore, in its requirements and in the mental, physical, nautical and military training inparted, is rapidly taking rank with the Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
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U.S. REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE. Line of Cadets.
LINE OF CADETS. No finer body of representative young Americans can be found than are to be seen qualifying themselves for officers' commissions in the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service. The government school near Baltimore, in its requirements and in the mental, physical, nautical and military training inparted, is rapidly taking rank with the Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
American
1906
Medium/Technique
Photo-chromolithograph on card stock.
Dimensions
Horizontal: 8.9 x 14 cm (3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive—Gift of Leonard A. Lauder
Accession Number2015.9616
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Americas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPostcards
DescriptionFront: Copyright by Waldon Fawcett.
Back: undivided. Mint.
Raphael Tuck & Sons' Post Card Series No.2325 "U.S.Revenue Cutter Service."
ART PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN.
Back: undivided. Mint.
Raphael Tuck & Sons' Post Card Series No.2325 "U.S.Revenue Cutter Service."
ART PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN.
ProvenanceBetween 1950 and 2015, acquired by Leonard A. Lauder, New York, from various postcard dealers in Europe and the United States; 2015, gift of Leonard A. Lauder to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 24, 2015)