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Catalogs
The oldest artifacts in the museum — the school’s own catalogs, and its primary glimpse into the earliest years.
The Publication
A school’s sales brochure — and so much more
The catalog is, in its simplest sense, an educational institution’s sales brochure. For AMA that holds true, but the catalogs also show aspects of the school found nowhere else in its records: the oldest ones list the cadets then enrolled, the instructors, the classes taught, and occasionally lithographs of the campus.
The oldest artifacts in the AMA Museum are the catalogs. They predate the Recalls — the yearbooks — by several decades, and they are our primary glimpse into the school’s early history.
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Catalogs
1879
The oldest
One School, Three Names
Watch the school rename itself
The catalog covers record something no other document does — the school’s changing identity, printed in its own words as it grew from a boys’ academy into a military one.
1879–1886
Augusta Male Academy
The earliest catalogs, before the military program. A classical boys’ school in the Valley of Virginia.
3 catalogs
1888–1889
Augusta Classical and Military Academy
The transitional name — the single catalog that catches the school mid-change, military instruction newly on the cover.
1 catalog
1889–1983
Augusta Military Academy
The name it carried for the rest of its life — nearly a century of catalogs and supplements.
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The Archive
Every catalog, by name and year
Oldest first. Each opens at archive.org, fully searchable once displayed.
1879–1886
Augusta Male Academy
1879–1880
1882–1883
1885–1886
1888–1889
Augusta Classical and Military Academy
1888–1889
1889–1983
Augusta Military Academy
1889–1890
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