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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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Betty Jo Knight (Schmidt) with doll at Gilman. Betty Jo is wearing a dress with a braided belt. Verso: "B.J. with her doll at Gilman 1930"
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"Patricia and Susan Riggle, Gilman Colorado, April 1952." -- verso Patricia is the older child in back of her sister.
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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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Ed Koch starting the repair and reconditioning of a rocker dump mine car. This mine car has become unserviceable since the bottom and end are worn through. The car will receive new steel section plates and be completely reconditioned.
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Standing above the cavern in the Gilman mine where the ball and rod mills are housed. The mills are on an incline for gravity feed down to the loading docks. At the center right of the photo, steel rods are stacked for use in the rod mill.
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Looking at Belden, at the bottom of the Eagle River Canyon, below Gilman, from the surface tram. The railroad siding was where chemicals were off loaded and ore was loaded into freight cars. The power plant sits across the Eagle River, accessible by a foot bridge. A group of men are gathered at the center of the photo.
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Train wreck in Eagle Canyon near Gilman on April 13, 1899. Men examining the wreckage with the Denver & Rio Grande engine in the water.
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The main shaft house at Gilman, midfield at left, with employee housing at right.
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Part of the mill area in the Gilman mine, showing separation tanks for lead, copper and zinc.
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Winter scene in Gilman c1899. Sitting on telephone poles must have been a popular sport.
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Verso: "Don and Tom on Battle Mt. Highway 1930s" The highway was then unpaved and was the only route for workers going to the mine at Gilman.
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Office of the New Jersey Zinc Company at Gilman, Colorado.
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Gilman School, Gilman, Colorado, showing children on the playground . Swings and seesaws in use with some boys sitting on the fence surrounding the playground. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Beth McIlnay, Lucille Riggle and Everett Limatta (far right) are standing in the repair shop in the Gilman mine.
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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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The Gore Range farthest away, Battle Mountain, Gilman and U.S. Highway 24 at midground. The photo was taken by Si Ostermeier from the top of Notch Mountain.
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Stalagtites in an abandoned drift in the Gilman mine at 16 level.
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The railroad siding at Belden, with a view up the Eagle Canyon to Gilman.
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Tom Knight, with Hound and pickup at Gilman, showing the depth of the snow.