View of a Weicker Transportation and Storage Company truck delivering a large piece of machinery for the Georgetown Manufacturing Corporation on 6th (Sixth) Street, Georgetown, Colorado. Two men stand looking at the truck; one in overalls and cap, the other in a leather jacket. Lettering painted on truck door: "PUC. 341-8, ICC 59800" on back panels: "Weicker T. & S. Co., Denver, Colo." and "Safe Storage, Call Main 3221 Weicker." McClellan Hall and two other storefronts show behind the truck. Advertising signs on buildings include: "Films" "Drink, Coca-Cola" "Mother's Day Cards" "Dad's Old Fashioned Root Beer" "Hires, Root Beer" and a thermometer with "keep regular with Ex-Lax." The machine shop was located in the Cushman Building and provided defense and commercial forgings and castings in steel, bronze and aluminum.
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Photoprint adhered to: X-1403.; Modern copy print.; Title supplied by cataloger.; R7100014042
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