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[Cannon at Pratt Institute]

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."

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