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#ThrowbackThursday: Pratt Institute Library in 1907
This postcard, circa 1907, shows the only public library in Brooklyn at the time. (Image courtesy ofthe Brooklyn Museum [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/home.php])Oil tycoon and philanthropist Charles Pratt founded the Pratt Institute in 1887 several blocks away from his Clinton Hill home. Although Pratt never had the