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Tom Knight, with Hound and pickup at Gilman, showing the depth of the snow.
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MacDonald Knight standing on trailer attached to his jeep. He's looking at lumber in front of an abandoned cabin at Holy Cross City. There are wildflowers in the foreground.
"The one picture of Don Knight's jeep shows some boards. Buster [Beck] said there was two piles of boards on this side of Francy Pass. Why & from where he does not know. SInce they are on this side of Fancy Pass he is sure they did not come from the saw mill at Cross Creek."...
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Gilman, Colorado, on Christmas morning 1938, taken from the Knight family's front door. Stacks of mine timbers are visible at right foreground and left midfield.
Verso: "view from our front door on Xmas AM, Gilman 1938"
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MacDonald Knight sitting on a parked car in the snow at Gilman. He's holding a camera and is underneath a sign for Coca-Cola.
Front: "sitting on top a parked car" [Gilman]
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MacDonald Knight holding his fishing pole and his catch, standing with his right foot on the running board of an automobile.
Caption: "D. & his fish"
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Automobile parked at the side of the road. Tom Knight is at left and an unidentified man, possibly Sophie Knight's brother, Krug Hamrick, is at right.
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Front: "Main Office E.Z.;" verso: "Mine office at Gilman, Healy's Grocery to the right"
E.Z. noted above was "Empire Zinc Co., formed in 1902 to search for and develop zinc mines in the west. The Eagle mine, operated by the Empire Zinc Division of the New Jersey Zinc Company at Gilman, Colorado, thirty miles west of the Continental Divide, was acquired in 1915." -- The First Hundred Years of the New Jersey Zinc Company, p.29
New Jersey Zinc...
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MacDonald Knight and his sister, Perlita Knight (Gauthier), standing in front of Mom's Cafe in Minturn, suitcases in hand. Don was returning to the Army and Perlita was enlisting in the Waves.
Verso: "Don recalled to Army duty, Perlita enlisting in Waves, at Mom's Café in Minturn 1943"
11) Gilman School
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Verso: "Gilman school house where we went to school for a month. Later Mom and Perlita taught here -- Betty Jo Schmidt"
The Gilman School was in School District 6 in Eagle County, Colorado.
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Perlita Knight [Gauthier] standing at the new Red Cliff bridge on Battle Mountain highway.
The dedication was held at noon on Sunday, August 3, 1941. Governor Ralph L. Carr and other officials attended. The bridge and six miles of new highway built over Battle Mountain cost a total of $636,405. The bridge is 470 ft. long, 209 ft. high; the roadbed is 30 ft. wide and has two 18-inch curbs. It is listed on the Historic Bridge Inventory, Colorado Historical...
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MacDonald Knight and friends, standing in the middle of Eagle Street in Red Cliff.
Verso: "Main Street Red Cliff, Fraysur and I and George Elliot"
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MacDonald Knight's first vehicle, a "Willys Knight," produced between 1914 and 1933 by the Willys-Overland Company of Toledo, Ohio.
