Glass plate negative depicting the Ancestral Puebloan site of Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde, Colorado (later established as Mesa Verde National Park).
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Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); William Gedney Beatty glass plate negatives collection, image #, NMAI.AC.160. National Museum of the American Indian Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
