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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of Mertie West (center) taking a drink of water from a drinking fountain and Josie Shaw (right) standing nearby in Independence, en route to Rock Creek. Mertie West hunches over a drinking fountain and takes a drink of water. Her head is down and she faces towards the left. A large rock sitting atop a concrete base serves as the fountain. It stands at center and Mertie stands behind and to the right of it. Rectangles of white have been painted on the sides of the rock. Josie Shaw stands to the right with her hands to her hips as she looks off towards the right. Behind her and Mertie, a house stands at right. Further back at left, a rundown, warehouse-like structure stands. A tree stands in the foreground at left. The trunk is painted white and plumbing fixtures hang down the side of it. Text from negative sleeve: 855. Rock Creek trip, 1941. Mertie West drinking at the fountain. Josie Shaw standing at one side. This fountain was at Independence, and was a rock which had been drilled and a pipe put thru projecting a few inches above the rock, and connected to the water main. Flowed continuously.
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