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Main Street in Gilman after a heavy snowfall. The license plate on the first car may read 1934. Storefronts show business names and products.
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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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A view of Gilman in the snow [1930s] with some mine facilities and housing.
24. 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.
25. 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.
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Gilman, Colorado, in the snow, looking north towards the Shaft-house.
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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.
28. Gilman
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Gilman housing in the snow.
29. Gilman
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Verso of 2010.009.008, showing photographer's notes for the photo.
30. 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.
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The loading tipple at Belden, after a heavy snowfall.
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Red Cliff, Colorado, showing the portion of Horn Silver Mountain where Greiner and DaLee made their first silver strike. The old dump is marked with an X.
34. Gilman
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Gilman, Colorado, December 25, 1948, taken from the "u" turn in Hwy. 24.
Autobiography of Mayo W. Lanning, p. 30:
"Gilman was close to the top of Battle Mountain at 9,000 feet above sea level. Since a great deal of my day was spent in the mine I was several thousand feet lower, but the only time Trudie got below this was when we drove down off the mountain. Over the top and about 3-4 miles away (mostly down), was Red Cliff and Turkey Creek, both...
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Remains of the mill and adjacent structures at Holy Cross City, which is ten miles south of Minturn or eleven miles north of Tennessee Pass. By the time this photo was taken, Fleming Lumber Co. had removed the main steam engine and one of the boilers from the mill to use in a saw mill. [Courtesy of Ted Beck]
36. 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...
37. Bus in snow
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A Battle Mountain Transportation bus in the snow at Gilman. The license plates reads 1936.
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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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A locomotive at Belden, after a heavy snowfall.
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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"