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Photo postcard of Charles Crawford, in Army uniform, training South Carolina, for World War I.
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Darrell Barnes in Navy uniform. He was employed by New Jersey Zinc at Gilman after college graduation and enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1943. He served as a radioman for 32 months and then returned to New Jersey Zinc. He became chief accountant at the Gilman office and assisted New Jersey Zinc offices in Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
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George Da Lee and Florence Quinlan at the Wolcott depot, 1919.
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Marion Fox "Foxie," in uniform, standing at the bridge at Kent in 1919.
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Photo postcard of Earnest A. Cook, in Army uniform, training at Camp Dix, New Jersey, for World War I. On the back, he writes: "Dear Sweetheart, This picture isn't very good as there is too much light on my face and it blurred across my eyes. Will have some better ones taken before I go across. Be good, Dearie. Yours lovingly, Earnest. That stern look is necessary when we stand at attention."
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Alexander Macdonell, Jr., in his Navy uniform. He served as a Seabee doing electrical work.
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Photo postcard of John Norton, in Army uniform, training for World War I. He's posed in front of an American flag.
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Verso: "Mom at Gilman with Harold Stoner home on furlough." Sophie Knight and Harold Stoner are posed next to an automobile. "Harold was a good friend of my brother Don. So there was work at the mine and Harold boarded with us. So I guess he was really 'home' on leave!" -- letter Nov. 25, 2013, Betty Jo Schmidt to Jaci Spuhler
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Ivan "Ike" Dump in his Army uniform during World War II, including a regulation special issue sweater,
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Portrait photograph of Charley Roy Dump. "Charley left home to join the Army at age 17. He later joined the Air Force and proudly served his country for 31 years. He retired in 1975 as the youngest Air Force Warrant Officer ever appointed. ... In his youth he was an avid skier, and was selected to compete, as an alternate for Downhill and Slalom for the 1948 Olympics Team in St. Moritz, Switzerland." -- obituary 2003
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Studio portrait of Joe A. Fear in U.S. Air Force uniform, taken on June 5, 1955, Chiu-Yi, Formosa (Taiwan).
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Ellis Bearden, in uniform, standing with his stepmother, Elizabeth Diamond Bearden. Ellis's mother, Maude Lewright Bearden, died in 1933, leaving three sons with husband Roland J. Beardon. Roland and Elizabeth were married in 1939.
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Studio portrait of Ellis Bernard Bearden in Army Uniform. He served with the 3rd Armored Field Artillery Battalion during World War II, fighting for 21 months in Germany and France. "He told friends about being caught in Belgium, in the Battle of the Bulge, just days before Christmas. The Allied troops were surrounded by Germans, and the cloudy weather prevented planes from providing air support for days. Bearden talked of his joy on the day the...
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Theodore "Bud" Beck on leave from the Army, October 1944, standing in the Beck's yard. The house in the background burned down. Tib Montoya was living in it at the time.
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Clipping from Zinc Magazine [[no date] "Thomas E. Knight, Watchman, Gilman; MacDonald, Army." "J'ai decoupe ca dans le journal de la cie de Gilman pour vous faire voir Tom. [Micheline Knight] [I've clipped this from the Gilman Company magazine so you could see Tom.]
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Studio portrait of Leonard G. Ambos, 1890-1962, in U.S. Navy uniform. Verso: "Leonard Geo. Ambos, 1890-1962. 8268 8262 Ambos. L. G. Ambos return to Mrs. Grace Abbott, Pershing, Colo. Routt Co., Colorado, copy no. 5, group 27" [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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George Nelson Yost sends a his official United States Air Force photograph to a special person. The photo was originally black and white but has been colored in.
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"Our Boys," in the Army, marching in a parage at Boulder, Colorado, 1918.
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Willis H. Staup, born August 18, 1895, in Whitewater, Colorado. His family moved to Gypsum in 1903 and operated the Gypsum Hotel. Mr. Staup was inducted into the army on 20 October, 1917, and saw service in France and Germany. He was discharged April 29, 1919. Willis was the son of W.T. and Lovella Staup. He married Pearl Mitchell on the 25th of December in 1919. He later worked as an electrician for Eagle River Electric Company.
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Joe Walsh in World War I uniform. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]