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Returning to Gilman for a tour on July 26, 1997. The entrance to the Garnett family's basement,
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Maloit Family photo at Belden by the old Mill dryer building, 1980. From left to right: Jean Maloit Bisschoff, Angat Maloit, Frances Maloit Nelson, Robert Maloit. Jack Nelson, Frances' husband, was the New Jersey Zinc representative on site during the Superfund cleanup.
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Office of the New Jersey Zinc Company at Gilman, Colorado.
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Aerial photograph taken by Mayo Lanning on February 3, 1998. Gilman is at the top of the photo with the tram from Gilman Mine going down to Belden at the bottom, next to the Eagle River.
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Verso of 2010.009.005, showing photographer's notes for the photo.
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Inside of a pool hall, possibly at Gilman.
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Cabin belonging to Charles Fredrick Eichaker at the mineral mill at Cross Creek. The Knight and Beck familes used the cabin at various points in time. "Even had an outhouse"--Angela Beck. [information from Buster Beck] Bill Burnett mentions Charlie Eyacher [sic.] in The Eagle on Battle Mountain at Gilman, Colorado and My Life as I Remember, although Bill locates the cabin at Fall Creek p.7: "Old Charlie had a house on the far side, eastside,...
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The Hart mining camp, "Poverty Flats," located on Battle Mountain east of Gilman and just below Bell's Camp. Harry Nottingham was orn in Belles Camp in 1890. There are varous buildings and outbuildings with a group of people gathered together at right midground. It may be a celebration of some sort. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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A view of the Eagle River Gorge, showing Belden at the bottom of the gorge and Gilman on the cliff above the gorge. The Belden tram is in the mid field of the photo. [One of a series of ten photographs included in postal mailer: Frashers Quality Photos, Ten Scenic Views souvenir from Canon City to Leadville, Colo. Frashers, Inc., Pomona, Calif. Required 2 cents postage.]
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MacDonald Knight standing on trailer attached to his jeep. He's looking at lumber in front of an abandoned cabin at Holy Cross City. There are wildflowers in the foreground. "The one picture of Don Knight's jeep shows some boards. Buster [Beck] said there was two piles of boards on this side of Francy Pass. Why & from where he does not know. SInce they are on this side of Fancy Pass he is sure they did not come from the saw mill at Cross Creek."...
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A view of Belden in the snow [1930s] with mine facilities. A man and a dog are walking the railroad tracks; the Eagle River is almost frozen over.
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Photo postcard looking west on Main Street, Gilman.
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View of the mineral mill at Holy Cross City.
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Looking up toward Gilman from Belden after a heavy snowfall.
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Verso: "Gold Park and our cabin and ore bin, Mom [Sophie Knight] and Don" [copy made in 1984]
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Robert Maloit and his mother, Pearl Maloit, sitting on the boardwalk that led from the doorway of their house in Gilman to the coal shed. At the right are the 56 steps that lead up to the main road through Gilman. The photo was taken after Robert graduated from Colorado School of Mines and before WW II.
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The main shaft house for the New Jersey Zinc Co. is the tall building at far right. The stacked lumber is for mine stoping. This view is facing north.
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At the bottom of the Eagle River Canyon below Gilman, Belden is situated on the railroad. Ore was loaded on train cars here. The surface tram ran from Gilman down to Belden. The debris from the downpour covers the railroad tracks at midfield. The water was 8 ft. deep between the compressor house and the loading tipple during the cloudburst. The compressor house had been at Belden for many years. "There was one huge Ingersoll-Rand piston-type...
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Aerial view of Gilman, Colorado, in the 1950s, looking down Rock Creek. The nose of the point was locally known as "Rocky Point," and for many years was the town dump. Rocky Point aims at Fall Creek, giving an idea of the terrain between Belden, in the Eagle River Valley below, and Lake Constantine..