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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- Southern Portion of Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
- Partial view of Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Southwestern Colorado, Mesa Verde National Park
- A color postcard that has a collage of different ruins that can be seen at Mesa Verde National park.
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- Speaker Chief House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- A sepia toned picture of Speaker Chief House in Mesa Verde National Park. Some building are in tact and there is a large rock cliff above and rubble on the ground.
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- Speaker Chief Tower - Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park.
- A sepia postcard of the ruins of the Speaker Chief Tower at Cliff Palace, which is located at Mesa Verde National Park
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- Speaker Chief Tower, Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.
- Re-touched photo of Speaker Chief's Tower in Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Speaker Chief Tower, Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Photograph of the Speaker Chief Tower, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Speaker Chief Tower, Cliff Palace. Mesa Verde National Park.
- Speaker Chief Tower, Cliff Palace. Mesa Verde National Park. A close-up image of the ruins.
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- Spring House, Mesa Verde, Colorado
- View of the Spring House ruin at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Spruce Tree Camp (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Hand colored print of Spruce Tree Camp, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Spruce Tree Camp (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- A picture of the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde National Park with many people standing on the cliff edge looking out.
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- Spruce Tree Camp, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
- Spruce Tree Camp in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. There are some tall treas on the left side of the postcard and a vintage car next to the building the takes up the majority of the postcard. There appear to be clouds in the sky.