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One black-and-white photograph of North Carolina A&M students in their cadet uniforms, dated circa 1899. The image includes John Wade Shore (class of 1900), great grandfather of the donor. Daniel Harvey Hill, Jr., faculty member and later college president, may also be depicted in the image. Beginning in 1894 all students at North Carolina College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts (who were all male at the time) were designated as cadets and required to attend military drill three hours per week. Many early photographs from the 1890s to the 1910s show students in their cadet uniforms. Less