File:Mesa-Verde---Cliff-Palace-in 1891 - edit1.jpg

Summary

Description	English: Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde in southwestern Colorado.
Date	1891
Source	Photographed in 1891. http://www.nba.fi/img/0787d527.jpg (index) on the site of the Finnish National Board of Antiquities. Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm: 0942.0005
Author	Gustaf Nordenskiöld, edit of en:Image:Mesa Verde - Cliff Palace in 1891.jpg by Andrew c to reduce dust/noise, and adjust curves in the dark range.
Other versions	en:Image:Mesa Verde - Cliff Palace in 1891.jpg, en:Image:Mesa-Verde---Cliff-Palace-in 1891 - edit1.jpg


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