Negro drinking at "Colored" water cooler in streetcar terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma by Russell Lee, by Russell Lee / Adam Cuerden, 1939-07
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Negro drinking at "Colored" water cooler in streetcar terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma by Russell Lee

Russell Lee / Adam Cuerden

1939-07

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This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID fsa.8a26761. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still…
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About this work

'A person of color drinking at "Colored" water cooler in streetcar terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma' - 35mm nitrate negative of a photo by Russell Lee, depicting the seperate but equal era.

Title kept original; obviously language has moved on.

Note that, while there is a theoretically higher-resolution source, File:"Colored" drinking fountain from mid-20th century with african-american drinking.jpg, that has some severe damage, like the blur on the left side (below the hand on the sign).