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The main shaft house at Gilman, midfield at left, with employee housing at right.
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Front: "timber yard 'Hound' on duty; verso: "Gilman on Little Chief Mine dump, Fraysur [Froysur, Frasier?] in picture
5) 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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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.
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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]
8) 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.
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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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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"