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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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A view of Belden in the snow [1930s] with mine facilities. A man and a dog are walking the railroad tracks; the Eagle River is almost frozen over.
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Installing new transformers at Gilman. The tanks at the back of the unit are for cooling purposes.
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Crane at Gilman power plant moving transformers. The building in the left background housed the post office, mercantile, and grocery store.
6) 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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Hap Fletcher pushing snow with a dozer after a snow slide near Belden.
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Frank Maloit and an executive from the New Jersey Zinc Co., standing in the snow at Gilman, Colorado.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
9) Gilman
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Gilman taken from the other side of the Eagle River Canyon. The main mine shaft is at right of center.
12) Gilman
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Aerial photograph taken by Mayo Lanning on February 3, 1998. Residences are on the left and town/community buildings are on the right. Hwy 24 is the curved road at the extreme left.
Autobiography of Mayo W. Lanning, p. 29:
"The mining camp was laid out in rows of houses along streets paralleling the highway above us on the slope of Battle Mountain. Our fist home was a little white bungalow just above the camp hospital. The previous tenant had...
14) Gilman School
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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.
15) 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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Aerial photograph taken by Mayo Lanning on February 3, 1998. Residential housing is on the right. The main street is visible between rows of houses. The water tanks are adjacent to Hwy 24.
17) Gilman housing
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Aerial photograph taken by Mayo Lanning on February 3, 1998. Housing for workers at the Gilman Mine is shown in the center of the photograph. The Lanning family lived in the center of the top row of houses, just below Hwy 24, which curves into the background. Water tanks are visible adjacent to Hwy 24.
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A view of Gilman in the snow [1930s] with some mine facilities and housing.
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Ramond M. "Hap" Fletcher plowing snow after a slide at Belden in the winter. Fletcher was a heavy equipment operator for the New Jersey Zinc Co. The vehicle was tracked for better performance in the heavy snow in the Eagle Canyon near Belden.
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Ramond M. "Hap" Fletcher plowing snow after a slide at Belden in the winter. Fletcher was a heavy equipment operator for the New Jersey Zinc Co. The vehicle was tracked for better performance in the heavy snow in the Eagle Canyon near Belden.
