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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.
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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"
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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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Climbing Fancy Pass to the Holy Cross Mining District. From left: Harold Stoner, Buster Beck and MacDonald Knight. The Holy Cross District covered 100 square miles of the intervening country between the headwaters of Cross and Homestake Creeks. Gold Park and Holy Cross City were the major mining camps.
Verso: "Big'un Stoner, Buster Beck, Don Knight climbing Fancy Pass 1939"
"Harold Stoner was known by his Missouri Family as 'Big'un.' He had...
5) Digging out
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The stairway leading up from the bachelors' quarters at Gilman. It had to be cleared routinely in the winter.
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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 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.
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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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Verso: "Don headed for Evening Star Mine at Gilman"
Behind Don [wearing his head lamp] is a stack of mining timbers.
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Two hikers on Fancy Pass, no doubt one of the Beck boys and Don Knight, on a prospecting trip.
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Front: "timber yard 'Hound' on duty; verso: "Gilman on Little Chief Mine dump, Fraysur [Froysur, Frasier?] in picture
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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.
15) Ralph Fridley
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Ralph Fridley, part of the mining group, on the way out of the Glengarry Mine on June 1, 1940, in typical Colorado spring weather. Fridley is leaning on a two-man, cross-cut saw.
16) 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.
17) 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]
19) 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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Tom Knight, with Hound and pickup at Gilman, showing the depth of the snow.