WW1 US SIGNAL CORPS AVIATION SECTION CADET TRAINING PROGRAM PRINCETON UNIV PHOTO For Sale

WW1 US SIGNAL CORPS AVIATION SECTION CADET TRAINING PROGRAM PRINCETON UNIV PHOTO
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WW1 US SIGNAL CORPS AVIATION SECTION CADET TRAINING PROGRAM PRINCETON UNIV PHOTO:
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ORIGINAL! RARE!WW1 US SIGNAL CORPS AVIATION SECTION CADET TRAINING PROGRAM PRINCETON UNIV PHOTO


RARE! HISTORIC!WW1 US SIGNAL CORPS AVIATION SECTION CADET TRAINING PROGRAM PRINCETON UNIVERSITYPHOTOIN ITS ORIGINAL FRAME UNDER GLASS.


WW1 Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps Cadet Training Programs:

To establish a training program to meet the unprecedented need for pilots during WW1, American officials visited Canadian schools, principally the University of Toronto School of Military Aeronautics (SMA), and used them as models upon which to pattern Air Service schools. American SMAs opened at six universities—the University of California, Cornell University, the University of Illinois, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ohio State University, and the University of Texas—beginning on 21 May 1917, and programs at Princeton University and the Georgia Institute of Technology began operations on 2 July. Using terminology from the Canadian schools, the Air Service called the students “flying cadets.” Pilot candidates had to be under the age of 25 and must have completed at least 2 years of college or a scientific school program. In addition to age and education qualifications, applicants had to “be athletic, honest, and reliable.” Nearly 40,000 applied for the flying cadet program, 22,500 of whom passed.



ABOUT 600 STUDENTS OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, MEMBERS OF THE PRINCETON SCHOOL OF MILITARY AERONAUTICS POSE AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY CAMPUS ON A HILL IN FRONT OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY'S BROKAW MEMORIAL ON THE NEW ATHLETIC GROUNDS IN OCTOBER 1917.


INCLUDES AN ORIGINAL 8 3/8"x11" INDIVIDUAL STUDENT-SIGNED PHOTO NAME LEGEND ONTHE 1917 PHOTOGRAPHER'S MASTHEADEDWATERMARKED BOND PAPERLETTERHEADTHAT MATCHES THE PHOTOGRAPHER AND DATE OF THE PHOTO. (PLEASE SEE PICTURES). IT MAY OR MAY NOT BE DIRECTLY CONNECTED WITH THIS PHOTO ANDHAS MODERATE HANDLING AND FOLD LINES FROM ITS 106 + YEARS.


PERIOD HAND OPAQUEDID'dIN THE LOWER NEGATIVE:


PRINCETON SCHOOL OF MILITARY AERONAUTICS OCTOBER 1917


PHOTO BY

ORREN JACK TURNER

PRINCETON, N.J.


CONDITION IS EXTREMELY FINE WITH LIGHTHANDLING AND USE FROM ITS 106 + YEARS.


ORIGINAL PERIOD FRAME WITH PERIOD WAVY GLASS.


SHARP FOCUS AND VERY GOOD CONTRAST.


FRAME DIMENSIONS: 20 3/4" x 13"


THIS IS NOT A REPRODUCTION OR A COPY.


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