A dump truck dumps asphalt onto a finisher during the oiling of a residential street in Fort Collins, Colorado in Larimer County. A workman works on the loader, and three workmen stand around the truck and watch the process.
Date
[between 1933 and 1945]
Notes
Diagram drawn on bottom of album paper attached to back of photoprint showing: "mat" "water" and "c.& g."; Hand-written at bottom of album paper: "Unless core is used in securing a good bond of the mat against the gutter, water will penetrate and cause settlement and disintigration of mat. WO4921 is the best project we have in using core in this matter."; Hand-written on album paper attached to photoprint: "The truck backs up to the finisher, elevates the dump bed as shown, and is then pushed ahead by the finisher."; Photoprint attached to album page with four other prints: X-11013, X-11014, X-11016, and X-11017.; Title from album paper attached to photoprint.; "Is Part Of" term supplied by cataloger. R7100110157
Description
1 photoprint ; 6 x 6 cm. (2 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.)
Is Part Of
WPA Photos
Subject
Fort Collins (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Road construction--Colorado--Fort Collins--1930-1950.
Source
Source: Writers' Program of the Works Project Administration in the State of Colorado.
Rights Statement
Restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
