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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], West Virginia University, Jacket from Cadet Uniform, A&M 5253, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

One jacket that was part of a cadet uniform likely for a student at West Virginia University. It includes buttons with the inscriptions "West Virginia" and "montani semper liberi." The collar manufacturer is Arrow-Cluett, Peabody and Company, Inc., a popular manufacturer of detachable collars in the early twentieth century. The uniform's tag, "Columbus Society Good," could refer to M. C. Lilley, Military and Secret Society Goods, Columbus, Ohio, which produced military and college uniforms from 1864-1931.