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From the Clifton Johnson CollectionA black girl is pulling on the well rope of a tall well house while a boy waits with a pail at his feet. Caption on back: "Did you ever see a well that had as high a roof as this from which the children are getting water?"
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![An FSA [Farm Security Administration] supervisor consults a borrower about unsanitary water supply; Safe well demonstration, near La Plata, Maryland [Charles County,] July 1941](https://d2l9jrtx1kk04i.cloudfront.net/b56ad95e116cd4839e6f0544ec5a78d07b04cef9.png "An FSA [Farm Security Administration] supervisor consults a borrower about unsanitary water supply; Safe well demonstration, near La Plata, Maryland [Charles County,] July 1941")
![Unidentified African-American man posing beside a well at 619-621 W. 140th Street [now 625-627], near the Hudson River, New York City, May 13, 1898](https://d2l9jrtx1kk04i.cloudfront.net/2a43cd9124f31f87e96e6bcb02186271a26f96c5.png "Unidentified African-American man posing beside a well at 619-621 W. 140th Street [now 625-627], near the Hudson River, New York City, May 13, 1898")
![Unidentified African-American man posing beside a well at 619-621 W. 140th Street [now 625-627], near the Hudson River, New York City, May 13, 1898](https://d2l9jrtx1kk04i.cloudfront.net/67b956855f2f43298405bfa250475c1dd8ab9983.png "Unidentified African-American man posing beside a well at 619-621 W. 140th Street [now 625-627], near the Hudson River, New York City, May 13, 1898")
