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41) Hoist house
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Verso: "The head-house or hoist house at the Eagle Mine and Gilman looking East" [Tom Knight's writing]
Taken on the main road into Gilman.
42) MacDonald Knight
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Caption: "Don at Eagle Canyon at Belden, prospecting"
MacDonald Knight is standing next to the railroad tracks and in front of some cribbing at Belden in the Eagle River Canyon.
43) Twin Lakes
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Twin Lakes, Colorado, in Lake County about 20 miles south of Leadville on State Highway 82.
Verso: "Twin Lakes. On O to O [Ocean to Ocean] highway, the grandest thing I ever seen. To the West lies the Cont. Divide with its snowcapped peaks, apparently held in place by the large Lodge Pole pine forest at their base." [written by Tom Knight]
"Tom on his way to Gilman BJS"
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Front: " '40, miners Glengarry June 1st, 1940"
Removing ore in an ore cart at the Glengarry [Glengary] Mine tunnel, June 1, 1940. Macdonald Knight is at left. Snow on the ground on June 1 is not that unusual for Cross Creek, given the altitude.
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MacDonald Knight on left with Harold Stoner and pack burros. This was the first prospecting trip in 1939. Knight taught school during the year and had his summers free to prospect.
Front: "1st trip in '39 Gold Park, Don, Stoner"
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Verso: "Pete Mann who ran the pack string 12 miles from the Glengary mine to Gold Park; 22 tons packed out summer 1939"
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An ore car sitting on mine tracks at the Glengarry Tunnel at Cross Creek, 1939.
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Continuing west on Highway 24 would take you to Minturn. Continuing east would take you to Gilman and Red Cliff. Photo taken by Tom Knight. Tom worked at Gilman as a watchman.
Verso: "Looking west down Eagle River. You can see I'm on top of the world. This shows the S curve on the O. to O. [Ocean to Ocean] Highway. We go to work tonight. Don't know what doing." [written by Tom Knight]
"Old highway on Battle Mountain" BJS
50) Family Trip
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The Azoulay-Knight and Weddell families posing for phototgrapher MacDonald Knight during a trip to Holy Cross City.
Caption: "On the road to Holy Cross City, Mt. Whitney in background"
From left: Lionel and Louise Azoulay with son Joel; Micheline Knight, Marcelle Azoulay (Memere), Tom Knight holding Patricia Knight, and the Weddells.
51) MacDonald Knight
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MacDonald Knight holding his fishing pole and his catch, standing with his right foot on the running board of an automobile.
Caption: "D. & his fish"
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MacDonald Knight and friends, prospecting in Gold Park.
Front" "H.C.City gold rush '41;" Verso: "shot in Gold Park"
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MacDonald Knight on his way back to camp after being on furlough, 1942. The photo was taken at Loveland Pass.
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School Days 1945-46, photo of teacher, Sophie Hamrick Knight.
”She taught my daughter, Patricia, in kindergarten, Red Cliff. (First year we had kindergarten here.)”--Angela Beck
”Mrs. Knight began her teaching during a teacher shortage in World War II era. She went back to college and received her degree at Western State, then returned to Eagle County to teach. She has taught in the Minturn area for 16 years. Mrs. Knight plans to spend the...
56) Gilman dump
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Verso: "Mom [Sophie Knight] and Clara Clark on Gilman dump"
"I can't say Gilman was the cleanest town in the county. There was no county landfill or garbage trucks. The town of Gilman picked up the garbage and hauled it over to a dump site back of the carpenter shop that ran all the way from the top of the mountain down throught the side of the mountain clear to the river below. There was everything dumped over the side of the hill and down the slope....
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On the left is the cabin at Holy Cross City, used by Don Knight. Two burros are visible. On the right, Don Knight is preparing soil for panning.
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Micheline and Don Knight with baby Patricia, taken during the trip to Holy Cross City. The Hound is in the foreground.
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Automobile parked at the side of the road. Tom Knight is at left and an unidentified man, possibly Sophie Knight's brother, Krug Hamrick, is at right.
60) Mine Shaft
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Charles Eichaker, posed at a mine shaft at Homestake Creek. The ore car rails run up to the shaft.
Front: "C. Iaker;" verso: "Mine shaft across Homestake Creek at Gold Park; we never worked it. Don"
