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14 photos and 1 illustration tagged castleclinton, from 5 members of Flickr Commons.

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• manhattan
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• libraryofcongress
• xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11
• newyorkharbor
• newyorkcity
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• date1839
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• publicdomain
• sysnum002453071
• mellengrenville
• medium

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• The Library of Congress 9 photos & illustrations
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Crowd on Battery Wall, N.Y. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Anonymous815 said:

  The building behind the Castle Clinton structure is the Whitehall Building.

• Anonymous815 said:

  Off to the far right, the building closest to the water (with the dome, which is half shown) is the Washington Building.

Awaiting arrival by boat of Gov. Clinton's remains, New York (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• swanq said:

  For event, see
  

Nanni Safe (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Richard Norton said:

  Menotti Nanni of Chicago, Illinois books.google.com/books?id=kkw-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA551&l... The patent: patents.google.com/patent/US1166145A

• B-59 said:

  "To prove that his invention is unsinkable, Menotti Nanni, a Chicago inventor, locked himself into a 6,000 pound safe which was thrown over board in view of thousands at Battery Park yesterday afternoon. After being submerged in thirty-five feet of water for nearly a minute, the safe appeared on the surface and the inventor was released." New-York tribune., June 03, 1918, Page 6, col. 2 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1918-06-03/ed-...

• Karen (LOC P&P) said:

  Richard Norton and B-59: Thanks for tracking down information about this photograph. We'll include some of it in the record next time we update.

• Richard Norton said:

  www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101499815 www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/27364666881/ www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/27364668221/