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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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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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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"
9) 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....
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Verso: "Don headed for Evening Star Mine at Gilman"
Behind Don [wearing his head lamp] is a stack of mining timbers.
12) Snowbound
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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.
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Verso: "Mom at Gilman with Harold Stoner home on furlough." Sophie Knight and Harold Stoner are posed next to an automobile.
"Harold was a good friend of my brother Don. So there was work at the mine and Harold boarded with us. So I guess he was really 'home' on leave!" -- letter Nov. 25, 2013, Betty Jo Schmidt to Jaci Spuhler
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Clipping from Zinc Magazine [[no date] "Thomas E. Knight, Watchman, Gilman; MacDonald, Army."
"J'ai decoupe ca dans le journal de la cie de Gilman pour vous faire voir Tom. [Micheline Knight] [I've clipped this from the Gilman Company magazine so you could see Tom.]
16) U.S. Post Office
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Two unidentified men in front of the Post Office at Gilman, Colorado.
17) Betty Jo Knight
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Betty Jo Knight (Schmidt) seated on a rock with a backpack in front of her. Given her boots and pants, she may have had a horse in the vicinity.
Caption: "Betty Jo on some jaunt into the hills at Gilman."
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An unidentified man standing at the back door of the bachelors' quarters in Gilman. Behind him [follow the arrow] is the Gilman Hospital. Both Alan Knight and Patricia Knight Hoffman were born in that hospital.
Front: "Hospital where Trish and Alan were born, Gilman looking north"
Verso: "Back door of bachelor house in Gilman"
