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21. Gilman School
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MacDonald Knight standing in the playground area of the Gilman School.
Verso: "Gilman elementary school where Mom [Sophie Knight] and Perlita [Knight Gauthier] taught and BJ [Betty Jo Knight Schmidt] and Don [MacDonald Knight] went. Battle Mtn. behind 1938." Print stamp: Jan. 10 1936.
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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.
23. Snowbound
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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.
24. Surface tram
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Verso: "Tramway from Gilman to Belden. Tom took me down it when I was about 10 and scared me to death." [BJS: Betty Jo Schmidt]
"The surface tram on the east side of Gilman was just below the carpenter shop and the surface electric shop. The tram was operated by a hoist just like in the inclines in the mill with bell signals for the hoist man to go up or down with the car. You could ride the tram from Gilman to Belden, or they used it to bring machinery,...
25. Snow in Gilman
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Front: "house top, the buried camp, Silent Whiteness"
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Don Knight, on left, standing next to his father, Tom Knight, at Gilman.
Verso: "Tom and Don at Gilman" [taken on same occasion as 2013.006.108]
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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
28. Boarding House
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Verso: "Boarding house in Gilman where Tom [Knight] stayed until we moved up from Canon City. Alan stayed there one summer while he worked to earn money for college."
29. Gilman School
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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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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.]
31. U.S. Post Office
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Two unidentified men in front of the Post Office at Gilman, Colorado.
32. Betty Jo Knight
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Betty Jo Knight (Schmidt) seated on a rock with a backpack in front of her. Given her boots and pants, she may have had a horse in the vicinity.
Caption: "Betty Jo on some jaunt into the hills at Gilman."
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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"
34. Digging out
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The stairway leading up from the bachelors' quarters at Gilman. It had to be cleared routinely in the winter.
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MacDonald Knight's first vehicle, a "Willys Knight," produced between 1914 and 1933 by the Willys-Overland Company of Toledo, Ohio.