Two sailors on liberty in Pensacola, Florida pose beside a public drinking fountain marked 'for colored,' a candid but powerful record of institutionalized racial segregation in the early twentieth-century American South. A nearby playbill advertising William Gillette's touring stage production of Sherlock Holmes helps place the photograph in the period 1899-1910s, during the U.S. Navy's 'Old Navy' era of Spanish-American War and Great White Fleet-era service. Project: 218600