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Object Name

photograph

Title

Ancestral Puebloan ruins near Mesa Verde, Colo.

Maker

Lang & Wetherill (Mancos, Colorado)

Wetherill, Richard, 1858-1910

Lang, Charles B.

Dates

Date-Fix, 1893

Subject

Hovenweep National Monument (Utah and Colo.)

Pueblo Indians--Antiquities--Colorado

Description

Photograph of Ancestral Puebloan ruins, likely at Hovenweep National Monument near Mesa Verde, Colo. Photographed by Charles B. Lang & Richard Wetherill, 1893.

Provenance

Found in collection: provenance unknown.

Inscription

Date is hand-written on verso. The verso is also stamped with the photographers' imprint: "LANG & WETHERILL, Photographers Mancos, Colo. CLIFF DWELLING A SPECIALTY Rocky Mountain Views Etc. ORDERS BY MAIL PROMPTLY ATTENDED."

Object ID

2000.129.6

CHS Scan #

10049338

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