Tape snipper

Tape snipper
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Title: Tape snipper
Description:

Nine men with overcoats standing before stoop; man third from right about to cut ribbon with scissors; two younger men at right with suitcases. Caption: "Tape snipper: [illegible] Pratt Institute, cuts the ribbon in front of the entrance to [illegible] for veterans after title was handed over by Federal and State [illegible]. Looking on, left to right, are Cornelius J. White, State Public Works Department architect; John Kervick, regional director of the Federal Public Housing Authority; Charles Pratt, president of Pratt Institute, and Paul Dunbar of Greenbelt, Md., and Robert O'Dell of Wellsboro, Pa., veterans who will move into the new quarters...."

Date: 1947
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Fort Greene (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: On verso: date stamped: Jan. 15, 1947; photographer's stamp.
Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Schools
Subject: Pratt Institute.
Veterans
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 0241