cover from the USA

Last Friday I got a cover from the USA.

Look at all these wonderful stamps! The two left one are joint issues with European countries, the first with Switzerland for the country's 700th anniversary (issued 22-02-1991) and the second with France for the Bicentenary of the French Revolution (issued 14-07-1989). Next are four very interesting stamps, which also deal with European history, Christopher Columbus this time. For the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 the USA issued their first commemorative stamps known as Columbians. One hundred years later these sixteen stamps were reproduced almost exactly only with an altered date in the upper right corner. They were issued on 22nd May 1992 in six souvenir sheet as a joint issue with Italy, Spain and Portugal. Last but not least is a Bison for environmental protection (issued 20-07-1970). 

In the cover were three US souvenir sheets (1, 2, 3) and a postcard.

The card shows the Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico. The Bandelier National Monument preserves the homes and territory of the Ancestral Puebloans of a later era in the Southwest dating between 1150 and 1600. The national monument was created by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916 and is named for Adolph Bandelier, a Swiss-American anthropologist, who researched the cultures of the area and supported preservation of the sites. The infrastructure of the site was created in the 1920s and 1930s. During World War II the monument area was closed to the public for several years, as the lodge was used by the personnel working on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos to develop an atom bomb. On the backside a cancel from the site was applied.

Thank You very much Sam-Quito!