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"Five o'clock at Gilman, Colorado." The company town of New Jersey Zinc in the afternoon sunlight. The main shaft entrance, the first building upon entering the town, is at the center of the photo; stacked mine timbers are directly to the right of the main shaft.
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Office of the New Jersey Zinc Company at Gilman, Colorado.
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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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Boarding house in Gilman, Colorado, after heavy snow.
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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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Automobiles parked at Gilman along the main road into the town. Housing in left background. The building at the far right is the one-story part of the shaft house. Stacked mine timbers can barely be seen above the roofline. This appears to be taken prior to the bus line that ran from Minturn. Notch Mountain is visible at the upper left.
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The New Jersey Zinc Company office in Gilman, Colorado. The cinder block portion, which was the newer portion of the office, was constructed in approximately 1953. [license plate 1953]
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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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A Chevrolet parked on a street in Gilman. The cover of the spare tire in the running board has a Chevrolet emblem and "Glenwood Springs, Colo." lettered on it.
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Main street in Gilman, Colorado, with cars and buildings covered in snow.
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The Post Office in Gilman, Colorado, with Postmaster Harry White sitting on the boardwalk in front of it. An automobile is parked up the street. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Mabel, Carol "Bobbye," and Don Ginther posed in front of automobile. Donald Burdett Ginther was born Nov. 3, 1910, in Belvidere, Nebraska. He married Mabel Gehr on June 30, 1930. They lived in Minturn while Don worked as a miner at Gilman. Carol Ginther married Russell Beck.
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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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Front: "Main Office E.Z.;" verso: "Mine office at Gilman, Healy's Grocery to the right" E.Z. noted above was "Empire Zinc Co., formed in 1902 to search for and develop zinc mines in the west. The Eagle mine, operated by the Empire Zinc Division of the New Jersey Zinc Company at Gilman, Colorado, thirty miles west of the Continental Divide, was acquired in 1915." -- The First Hundred Years of the New Jersey Zinc Company, p.29 New Jersey Zinc...
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Gilman, Colorado, in the snow, looking north towards the Shaft-house.
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Gilman Mine engineering and laboratory employees entering a building. Automobiles are parked in front.
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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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John Skubic wearing hat and glasses, seated in his car. John was a Gilman miner, Red Cliff resident and avid fisherman. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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A Battle Mountain Transportation bus in the snow at Gilman. The license plates reads 1936.