Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde

To encourage domestic tourism and to promote America's national parks, a series of ten stamps was issued on various dates from July 16 to October 8, 1934. In denominations of 1- to 10-cents, the stamps depict scenes from the national parks in various colors.

The 4-cent brown National Parks stamp issued September 25, 1934, depicts the "Cliff Palace" in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. The park was established in 1906 to preserve and protect the cliff dwellings and other archaeological remnants of the ancient Puebloan Indians, also called "Anasazi."