Volume 3: Mesa Verde/ Aztec Ruins
According to the U.S. National Park Service, Mesa Verde National Park features 5,000 known archeological sites, including 600 spectacular cliff dwellings. The name is Spanish for “Green Table,” and the area was inhabited by the Ancestral Pueblo people from AD 600 to 1300, over 700 years. (source) Mesa Verde, as well as nearby Aztec Ruins National Monument located in Aztec, New Mexico, are an important link to the Native American past of the region and provide significant economic stimulus, with well over half a million people visiting each year. (source)
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- Cliff Palace
- Image of the Cliff Palace ruins at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- This is the largest of the many prehistoric ruins found in Uncle Sam's only archaeological park. The structure is 300 feet long and contained approximately 200 rooms, including 23 kivas, or underground ceremonial chambers. It occupies a great cave..."
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Photograph of the Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- In this great prehistoric community there were 23 kivas, circular underground ceremonial chambers that served the men as clan headquarters and the site of secret rituals."
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Colored grainy image of cliff dwellings
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Postmarked San Diego, Cal. Kearney Branch 11/1/1917. Mailed to Mrs. A. V. Zick 555 Broadway Tacoma, Wash. "Hello Mother: My new address is, "Co. " A" 158th Inf. Camp Kearny Cal. So start writing. Orion". [We retained two of this postcard; one is less worn, but the other has the message as noted above.]
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Colored print of Cliff House in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Photograph of Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. On front of postcard: Cliff Palace, contains 200 dwelling rooms and 22 sacred rooms, called Kivas.
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Cliff Palace. Mesa Verde National Park near Cortez, Colorado.
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Black and white image of cliff dwellings under an alcove
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Black and white photo of cliff ruins
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- On front, "Hello...We're at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, overlooking the Four Corner Country, seeing fascinating Stone Age Culture, climbing like a goat among the ruins of the worlds largest known cliff dwellings built by the Indians about 2000..."