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Tom Knight, with Hound and pickup at Gilman, showing the depth of the snow.
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Photo postcard looking west on Main Street, Gilman.
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Front: "Eagle Bird Canon Prospecting for US 40;" verso: "Highway scene near Gilman, mid- winter"
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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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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]
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View of Gilman, Colorado, from the highway in winter. Company housing is visible in the center of the photo. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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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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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Front: "house top, the buried camp, Silent Whiteness"

10. 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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Two unidentified men in front of the Post Office at Gilman, Colorado.
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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 vehicle stuck in the snow in the town of Gilman in 1943.