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File:Negro drinking at "Colored" water cooler in streetcar terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma by Russell Lee.jpg

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'Negro 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. (See the Wikipedia article on the term for the history, but long story short, the history of terminology for African-Americans has a lot of once-acceptable terms that are not acceptable today. Roughly speaking, they go out of favour once racists start using them: For example, signs like these were not helping the term "colored people" not get laced with racist connotations, despite a few decades earlier it being used in the name of the NAACP.)

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)
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Author
Russell Lee  (1903–1986)  wikidata:Q514628
 
Russell Lee
Alternative names
Russell Werner Lee
Description American photographer, photojournalist and journalist
Date of birth/death 21 July 1903 Edit this at Wikidata 28 August 1986 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Ottawa Austin
Work period 1936-1943 Farm Security Administration, 1950s/1960s Industrial photography (Standard Oil New Jersey, Aramco, J&L Steel), 1965-1973 University of Texas
Work location
United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q514628
Restored by
Adam Cuerden   
 
Description British
Image restorationist, composer, amateur photographer and artist, and Wikipedian
As Adam lives in Britain, which makes it incredibly easy to acquire copyright in his works, he grants, if needed, an irrevokable license to use this work however you see fit. He requests attribution where possible, and realises that "where possible" means that that request is not legally enforcable. Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:44, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
Date of birth 8 June 1979
Location of birth United States of America
See file page for creator info.
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Public domain This image is a work of an employee of the United States Farm Security Administration or Office of War Information domestic photographic units, taken as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. See Copyright.

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