Center of Southwest Studies

Collection  P 042:
Southwest  Colorado historic photonegatives

from the Walker Art Studio (Montrose, Colo.) 
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Ancestral Puebloan ruins
Date/circa:  1900/1930
Photographer: Walker Art Studio (Montrose, Colo.)
Subjects: Archaeological sites--Cortez--Colorado--Photographs; Cortez (Colo.)
Notes: Gentleman standing among the ruins of a tower, possibly 15 feet in height and made of dry laid sandstone blocks. The tower is surrounded by sage, pinyon and some rubble. A sandstone cliff can be seen in the background.Site possibly located in Sand Canyon, just west of Cortez, Colorado. Two sets of numbers written on sleeve 1441-1441A and (more recently) 462 A-B. Also typed on sleeve is "Sand creek ruins storage tower". Two negatives are housed in the same sleeve.
Negative#: 2484

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