Gilman, Colorado
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Betty Jo Knight (Schmidt) with doll at Gilman. Betty Jo is wearing a dress with a braided belt.
Verso: "B.J. with her doll at Gilman 1930"
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The main shaft house at Gilman, midfield at left, with employee housing at right.
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Verso: "Don and Tom on Battle Mt. Highway 1930s"
The highway was then unpaved and was the only route for workers going to the mine at Gilman.
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Tom Knight, with Hound and pickup at Gilman, showing the depth of the snow.
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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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Front: "timber yard 'Hound' on duty; verso: "Gilman on Little Chief Mine dump, Fraysur [Froysur, Frasier?] in picture
9) Knight home
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Verso: "our home on the Chief Mine dump, Gilman 1941"
Marked with an arrow, the house sits next to a garage. Mine timbers are stacked to right and left. "Dump" refers to the disposal of earth left after ore is extracted.
Additional housing is located above the Knight home.
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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.
11) Poorman Mine
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Verso: "Don [MacDonald Knight] at the Poorman Mine which we once owned below Gilman."
12) Shoveling out
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Front: "4th & Main Gilman, Colorado [photo postcard] [house is at far right, where electrical lines end] Unidentified people shoveling snow after a heavy snowfall in Gilman.
13) Sitting on a car
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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]
14) Notch Mountain
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Notch Mountain in the background, with Fall Creek flowing into the Eagle Canyon. Parts of Gilman can be seen in the immediate right foreground.
Verso: "Notch Mt. from Gilman. Fall Creek and Eagle Canyon in foreground"
15) Hoist house
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Verso: "The head-house or hoist house at the Eagle Mine and Gilman looking East" [Tom Knight's writing]
Taken on the main road into Gilman.
16) Gilman dump
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Verso: "Mom [Sophie Knight] and Clara Clark on Gilman dump"
"I can't say Gilman was the cleanest town in the county. There was no county landfill or garbage trucks. The town of Gilman picked up the garbage and hauled it over to a dump site back of the carpenter shop that ran all the way from the top of the mountain down throught the side of the mountain clear to the river below. There was everything dumped over the side of the hill and down the slope....
17) Surface tram
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Unidentified man [Tom Knight?] standing on the surface tram, looking from Belden toward Gilman.
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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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Verso: "Tom and Williamson at Gilman. Williamson was a tramp miner who was killed at Juneau, Alaska, in a gold mine"
