OBJECTS Record
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Metadata
Catalog Number |
2022.005.001b |
Object Name |
Uniform |
Source |
Family of Prudence Ford Stallings |
Year Range from |
1893 |
Year Range to |
1897 |
Place of Origin |
USA, Ohio, Columbus |
Place |
USA, Indiana, West Lafayette |
Description |
Uniform jacket. Navy blue. Five brass buttons down the front, three smaller brass buttons on each cuff. Decorations made of braided black cloth. Tag on inside of collar reads "The M. C. Lilley & CO. Columbus, O. / Military & Society Goods." "INDIANA" in raised letters and a scene on each button. Front closure is buttons and a metal hook and eye at the collar. Fully lined. Inside pockets on both sides. On the back of each button is "M. C. LILLEY & CO COLUMBUS O" |
Provenance |
See accession description and file. |
Notes |
This matches a Purdue University military uniform from the years 1893 - 1897, per Adriana Harmeyer of Purdue University archives. Edwin Chaffin Ford received a bachelor of science degree in Pharmacy from Purdue in 1901, and according to his family he is the person who owned the uniform. During that period, Purdue required all male students to receive two years of military training, so evidently this was Edwin Chaffin Ford's uniform from that time. M. C. Lilley & Co. was operating under that name from 1865 to 1933. |
Search Terms |
Purdue University |
Dimensions |
H-4 W-22 L-31 inches |
Made |
M. C. Lilley & Co. |
Material |
Cloth/Metal |
Owned |
Prudence Ford Stallings |
People |
Moore, Prudence Louise Stallings Moore, James Stallings, Prudence Ford Ford, Edwin Chaffin |