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[Cannon at Pratt Institute]

[Cannon at Pratt Institute]
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Title: [Cannon at Pratt Institute]
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Mounted cannon at Pratt Institute, with campus building, leafy trees, and adjacent steet in background. Label on verso: "The trophy which gives Pratt varsity teams their nickname, 'Cannoneers,' the bronze Spanish cannon, cast in Seville in 1720 and inscribed to Philip V and Elizabeth Farnese, came from Morro Castle at the time of the Spanish American War and was mounted at the Institute in 1900."
Date: [195-?]
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2]
Fort Greene (New York, N.Y.) [3]
More Details: Photographer's stamp from label on verso.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collection: Schools [4]
Subject: Pratt Institute. [5]
Cannons [6]
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library
ID: SCHL 0224
 
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[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Pratt Institute.
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/c/Cannons