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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.
2) All the kids
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Caption: "All the kids at Holy Cross City. Lionel's [Azoulay] house in background. Mica. Summer 1949"
The Knight-Azoulay children playing on a boulder near the Azoulay house in Holy Cross City.
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Automobile parked at the side of the road. Tom Knight is at left and an unidentified man, possibly Sophie Knight's brother, Krug Hamrick, is at right.
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Photo postcard of the bachelor quarters in the Canal Zone for workers on the Madden Dam.
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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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Continuing west on Highway 24 would take you to Minturn. Continuing east would take you to Gilman and Red Cliff. Photo taken by Tom Knight. Tom worked at Gilman as a watchman.
Verso: "Looking west down Eagle River. You can see I'm on top of the world. This shows the S curve on the O. to O. [Ocean to Ocean] Highway. We go to work tonight. Don't know what doing." [written by Tom Knight]
"Old highway on Battle Mountain" BJS
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At the bottom of the Eagle River Canyon below Gilman, Belden is situated on the railroad. Ore was loaded on train cars here. The surface tram ran from Gilman down to Belden. The debris from the downpour covers the railroad tracks at midfield. The water was 8 ft. deep between the compressor house and the loading tipple during the cloudburst.
The compressor house had been at Belden for many years. "There was one huge Ingersoll-Rand piston-type...
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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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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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Betty Jo and Glen Schmidt, posed in front of a Caterpillar tractor. It was their last year on the ranch.
11) Boarding House
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Verso: "Boarding house in Gilman where Tom [Knight] stayed until we moved up from Canon City. Alan stayed there one summer while he worked to earn money for college."
14) Christmas 1938
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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...
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Continuing construction of the top level of the Madden Dam. An "x" marks an object in the whitewater formed by the sluice gate. No caption.
The Panama Canal was opened on August 15, 1914. The first major capital improvement was the Madden Dam and Power Project. Completed in 1935, it controlled the flow of water from the Chagres River into Gatun Lake and created its own reservoir, Lake Madden. [That name was changed to Alajuela Lake in 1999 when...
17) 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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Don Knight, seated in front of a tent, putting on his boots. Campfire with utensils in foreground. Caption on verso: "French Creek 1939"
"Access Gold Park, Holy Cross City on Forest Service Road 703. Holy Cross City via Gold Park is a one-way road. Or, from the Missouri Lake Trail head to French Creek, use Forest Service Road 727. The road to Holy Cross City used to be a good road. We drove up it all the time. Now, Buster [Beck] said, it is...
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MacDonald Knight standing on trailer attached to his jeep. He's looking at lumber in front of an abandoned cabin at Holy Cross City. There are wildflowers in the foreground.
"The one picture of Don Knight's jeep shows some boards. Buster [Beck] said there was two piles of boards on this side of Francy Pass. Why & from where he does not know. SInce they are on this side of Fancy Pass he is sure they did not come from the saw mill at Cross Creek."...
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On the left is the cabin at Holy Cross City, used by Don Knight. Two burros are visible. On the right, Don Knight is preparing soil for panning.
