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.
- Birds eye view of Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park.
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- Cliff Palace, from a lithograph by Eugene Kingman
- Cliff Palace, from a lithograph by Eugene Kingman, b/w postcard.
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- Cliff Palace, looking northwest, Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.
- Photograph of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park. May have been taken in the fall of the year. "Claude Spencer" is written in copperplate script on the back of the card.
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- Cliff Palace. Mesa Verde National Park. Southwestern Colorado. Reached via Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad.
- A panoramic view of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park.
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- Cliff Palace: the Painted Tower as seen from the Speaker Chief's House
- Print from a lithograph by Eugene Kingman of Cliff Palace. On back of postcard: From a lithograph by Eugene Kingman.
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- Cliff Palace; Point Lookout camp cottages; and Pt. Lookout One Stop Super service station on U.S. 160
- Three photos - Mesa Verde Cliff Palace, Pt. Lookout Camp Cottages and Pt. Lookout One Stop Super Service Station. "Modern Cabins--Natural Gas. Up-to-Date cafe--Curio Shop. Miles from camp to..." C.T. Art-Gravure.
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- Cliff Ruins Mesa Verde Orr Photo
- A boy is standing in the ruins, leaning up against a wall. He's wearing a hat and tie, but no jacket.
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- Cliff dwellers ruins
- A black and white photograph showing the ruins of a cliff dwelling.
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- Cliff dwellers ruins, Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Black and white image of ruins
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- Cliff dwellings, Mesa Verde N. Park, Colo.
- Black and white photograph of the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings.
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- Climbing to Balcony House
- Climbing to Balcony House. The caption notes that "This most interesting ruin is easily reached by means of a trail and ladders. The prehistoric inhabitants used a very difficult trail and a narrow cleft in the rocks, undoubtedly for protection from their enemies."
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- Climbing to Balcony House Ruin - Mesa Verde National Park
- A man and a woman are climbing up a ladder to the Balcony House Ruins in Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado.