Behrens Poster Archive

 

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Identifier

015

Creation Date

2019

Description

Alt Text: Poster for Mesa Verde National Park with background images of ruins and two smaller images including a bird in a circle and a round basket with a complex design. Text in white and brown letters.

Transcription: In 1888, while searching for lost cattle, [they] pushed through dense growths on the edge of a deep canyon and shouted aloud in astonishment...Thus was discovered the most elaborate and best preserved prehistoric ruins in America...Mesa Verde National Park. Colorado. Mesa Verde National Park.

Description: Poster depicting Mesa Verde National Park featuring images of the ruins and quotes explaining how they were discovered by people looking for lost cattle.

Sub-Collection

National Parks and Monuments

Series Title

National Parks and Monuments

Series Description

This series of twenty-three posters on the theme of National Parks and Monuments, was produced in December 2018 and January 2019. The posters were first exhibited at the Hartman Reserve Nature Center in Cedar Falls IA in March thru April 2019. They were created on a Macintosh computer, using Adobe Photoshop, by combining modified features from public domain photographs and other graphic elements.

Park/Monument Location

Colorado, United States

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Keywords

Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--Posters;

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