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Ten members of the mine rescue team for the New Jersey Zinc Co. at Gilman, Colorado. They are standing at the main shaft house in Gilman, wearing head lamps and breathing apparatus.
Standing fourth from the right is Joel Hendrickson; third from right is Frank McDonald.
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Nine members of the mine rescue team for the New Jersey Zinc Co. at Gilman, Colorado. They are standing at the main shaft house in Gilman, wearing head lamps and breathing apparatus. In back on the far right is Joel Hendrickson; the man standing right next to him is Frank McDonald.
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A portrait photograph of (Georgia) Maude Mitchell, taken at the Mountain View Nursing Home in Glenwood in December 1974 when Maude was 90. Maude was a committed gardener.
From her obituary Eagle Valley Enterprise, June 14, 1979: "She was born May 12, 1884 at Rockwood, Tenn., and had lived in Stillwell, Okla. She moved to Denver in 1905 and had been a resident of Eagle County since 1910. She was a member of the Methodist Church, Rebekahs, and was...
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Raymond Tippett wearing flight jacket, scarf, headset and cap. World War II era photograph. Raymond was the son of R.E. and Blanche Tippett of Red Cliff, Colorado.
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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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Joy Marfitano, with her headset on her shoulder, standing in front of the Mountain Bell building. Mountain Bell started in 1936 and Joy was a switchboard operator.
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Berniece Chadwick, Alberta Limatta, and Ella Burnett with Hawkeye and Jean Flaherty behind them in the cap lamp room. The belts visible on Berniece and Ella hold a battery pack on the back with a power cord attaching to the lamp. Each lamp had 2 filaments so that if one burned out, the power could be switched to the second.
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From left, Bill Burnett, Hawkeye (Gordon) Flaherty, and Ella Burnett are standing in front of cap lamp units at 16 level in the Gilman mine. Alberta Limatta is at far right.
The shaft house had a 2 cage lift system, taking miners between levels. It could work with one cage going up and the other down, or with just one isolated cage moving. Cap lamps were put on before going into the mine and returned upon coming out.
