Showing 1 - 20 of 22 , query time: 0.01s
Cover Image
Format:
Image
Caption: "All the kids at Holy Cross City. Lionel's [Azoulay] house in background. Mica. Summer 1949" The Knight-Azoulay children playing on a boulder near the Azoulay house in Holy Cross City.
Cover Image
Format:
Image
Office of the New Jersey Zinc Company at Gilman, Colorado.
Cover Image
Format:
Image
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."...
Cover Image
Format:
Image
Photo postcard looking west on Main Street, Gilman.
Cover Image
Format:
Image
Tom Knight standing in front of his home in 1959. [print copy date June 1984] "Thomas Knight was born near French Lick, Ind. May 28, 1886 and completed his education at Central Normal College, Ill. He first came to Colorado with his parents and brother, Robert in 1908. ... He first came to Eagle County in 1929 from Canon City and went to work for the Empire Zinc...until his retirement in 1949." --Eagle Valley Enterprise Aug. 11, 1960
Cover Image
Format:
Image
Verso: "Gold Park and our cabin and ore bin, Mom [Sophie Knight] and Don" [copy made in 1984]
Cover Image
Format:
Image
The main shaft house for the New Jersey Zinc Co. is the tall building at far right. The stacked lumber is for mine stoping. This view is facing north.
Cover Image
Format:
Image
Cover Image
Format:
Image
At the bottom of the Eagle River Canyon below Gilman, Belden is situated on the railroad. Ore was loaded on train cars here. The surface tram ran from Gilman down to Belden. The debris from the downpour covers the railroad tracks at midfield. The water was 8 ft. deep between the compressor house and the loading tipple during the cloudburst. The compressor house had been at Belden for many years. "There was one huge Ingersoll-Rand piston-type...
Cover Image
Format:
Image
The Canal Zone, showing housing for workers.
Cover Image
Format:
Image
Unidentified man [Tom Knight?] standing on the surface tram, looking from Belden toward Gilman.
Cover Image
Format:
Image
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...
Cover Image
Format:
Image
MacDonald Knight standing in the playground area of the Gilman School. Verso: "Gilman elementary school where Mom [Sophie Knight] and Perlita [Knight Gauthier] taught and BJ [Betty Jo Knight Schmidt] and Don [MacDonald Knight] went. Battle Mtn. behind 1938." Print stamp: Jan. 10 1936.
Cover Image
Format:
Image
Mill building at the mill pond, head of Cross Creek (Holy Cross Wilderness Area). Two men are examining something by the foundation of the building.
Cover Image
Format:
Image
The door to the bachelors' quarters in Gilman during the winter of 1938. The occupants were obliged to dig out the door and stairway in order to get to work.
Cover Image
Format:
Image
Verso: "Boarding house in Gilman where Tom [Knight] stayed until we moved up from Canon City. Alan stayed there one summer while he worked to earn money for college."
Cover Image
Format:
Image
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.
Cover Image
Format:
Image
Remains of the cabin owned by Charles Eichaker at the mill at Cross Creek. The mill pond is visible in the right background. The cabin was used by the Knight and Beck families at various points in time. [information from Buster Beck]
Cover Image
Format:
Image
Photo postcard of the bachelor quarters in the Canal Zone for workers on the Madden Dam.
Cover Image
Format:
Image
"The Hans Olesen place when owned by Schmidts; also the cover photo of the calendar." October 1976 in a calendar, Rural America, the Bi-Centennial Year, Copyright 1975, Time Piece Photography, Inc. Boulder, Colorado 80302, Photo Chrono Graphics; photographer for October Jay Simon $4 "1 1/2 story house, built in 1900 containing 8 rooms with four bedrooms and a bath. The first floor area has 968 square feet with the second floor area 242 square...