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Photo of the Week: Unidentified Military School

Cadets in formation on parade ground of unidentified military school, ca. 1907

Can you name this unidentified military school? It was taken about 1907 by C.J. French who was a surveyor in West Virginia and Virginia for the Norfolk and Western Railway.

Online photo sleuthing is a non-automated example of a social web collective knowledge system where images and descriptive information in an Internet database are augmented with user contributions.  Additional information can be found in Tom Gruber’s Collective Knowledge Systems: Where the Social Web meets the Semantic Web.

To participate in the Photo of the Week forum, please offer a critique of the photograph — its significance, historical value, and importance to you.