Construction of the Casa Grande Model in U. S. National Museum

ID: SIA2009-2224 and 21439

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: c. 1910

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95, Box 43, Folder: 39

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Summary

United States National Museum (now the Arts and Industries Building) work and storage area with the Casa Grande (Arizona) ruins model under construction. Busts are on a shelf near the ceiling. There are also storage cases and equipment. The model despicts the ruins of the Great House found in Arizona and built by the Sonoran Desert people.

Subject

  • Arts and Industries Building
  • United States National Museum
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Anthropology

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95, Box 43, Folder: 39

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

c. 1910

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Artifacts
  • Archaeology
  • Art
  • Architecture
  • Sculpture
  • Historians
  • Models (representations)
  • Busts
  • Anthropology
  • Ethnology
  • Exhibitions
  • Historical models
  • Indians of North America
  • Art objects
  • Models and modelmaking

Place

  • Casa Grande National Monument (Ariz.)
  • Arizona

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Interior

ID Number

SIA2009-2224 and 21439

Physical description

Color: Cyano type; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Interior; Medium: Photographic print

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