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 (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Photograph of Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. Postmarked Mancos, Colorado. To Mrs. Fanny Dahim Denver, Colorado. Dated July 18, 23. Message is not legible.
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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.)
- Postmarked Durango, CO 6/29/1929. To: Mr. Henry L. Weygand. Zurich, Mont. "If I had time & my wife were of the same mind we would surely see the Cliff Dwellers region which is about 40 miles from here. Bro, Oscar & Lee". C.T. American Art Colored.
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde, Colorado. Domestic postage: one stamp; foreign: two cents.
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Hewn from the sheer Canyon Cliffs stand the remains of Cliff Dwellings, inhabited by a prehistoric people that vanished over a thousand years ago. Fine new highways lead to these ruins, perhaps the strangest of the state's many wonders."
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Colored print of a Paul Coze painting. The caption reads, "Abandoned at the time of the great drought of 1276-99, the ruins of this great pueblo stand as the most extensive monument to prehistoric cliff dwellers of the Southwest." This is card No. 12 of a series of 24 Mesa Verde paintings by Paul Coze.
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Mesa Verde National Park, so long inaccessible and little known, now invites discovery by motorists. Fine new highways, most of them completely paved, have shortened the driving time to only one day from Denver, Salt Lake City, Grand Canyon, or Santa Fe.
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Colored print of ancient ruins
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- A wonderful view of the Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park.
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Cliff dwellings, the homes of a prehistoric tribe of Indians."
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Print from a lithograph by Eugene Kingman of Cliff Palace. On back of postcard: From a lithography by Eugene Kingman handwritten on front top.
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Black and white photograph of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.