School Test 1

Copy print depicting Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde National Park in 1908. Image was photographed by an unidentified photographer during a packhorse trip made by James S. James and honeymooners Mr. and Mrs. Townsend.

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Photograph, Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park

Men pose in Cliff Palace, an ancestral Pueblo cliff dwelling ruin at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. Shows masonry ruins and a stone overhang.


Negative, Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde

Exterior black design. Neck encircled by two bands of solid triangles one pendent from rim, the other from bottom framing line. Shoulder has framing line encircled in triangular scroll with attached dot. Shoulder to neck framing line has irregular zig-zags filled with diamond cross hatchures with hooks at ends. Some of the neck bottom triangles also have hooks. Multiple fire clouds. Two handles at neck.

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Photograph, Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park

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