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Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde
Date/circa:  1911
Photographer: Pennington Studio (Durango, Colo.)
Subjects: Indians of North America--Antiquities--Photographs; Cliff-dwellings - Colorado - Mesa Verde--Photographs
Summary note: A very long view of Cliff Palace from the inside, looking northwest. Constructed under a southwest-facing cliff overhang, the site was sunny in the winter and shady in the summer.
Other notes: Cliff Palace contained some 220 rooms and 23 kivas and housed from 250 to 350 people. The following phrase must be used whenever and wherever this photograph is displayed or exhibited: From the Tom O. and H. Lucille Kimball Indian Collection.
Photoprint#: P051027

Original photos from the Tom O. and H. Lucille Kimball Indian Collection. 
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