The Snapshots in Time Collection
Delivery Receipt and Promissory Note for Officer's Uniforms, Edward P. McAleer, July 9 1943
A 1943 delivery receipt and promissory note documenting the uniform purchases required of newly commissioned officer Edward P. McAleer, totaling $346.96 for uniforms, insignia, and accessories. Newly commissioned officers were traditionally responsible for purchasing their own uniforms, a cost humorously annotated here as 'All it cost to become a "Gentleman."' Project: 218203