Painting of a bird's-eye view of Casa Grande Ruin, Arizona
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 258442
 
NAA INV 09070400

USNM Accession 51013
name: label: Artist
content: Nichols, Spencer Baird, 1875-1950
label: Names
content: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909 : Seattle, Wash.)
place: label: Place
content: Casa Grande (Ariz.)
label: Place
content: North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
creator: label: Artist
content: Nichols, Spencer Baird, 1875-1950
culture: label: Culture
content: Hohokam Tradition (archaeological culture)
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Spencer Baird Nichols (1875-1950) was an American portrait painter, landscape painter, muralist, book illustrator, and educator.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Paintings (visual works) (canvas, 11 feet 10 inches x 6 feet 4 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1909
container: label: Container
content: Roll 258442
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The painting was deposited in the United States National Museum by the U.S. Government Board of Managers of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909, along with a painting of a view of Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado (USNM Accession 51013).  The Casa Grande painting was transferred from the object collections of the Department of Anthropology to the National Anthropological Archives at an unknown date.  The Cliff Palace painting has not been located.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS258442
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Graphic Materials
label: Type
content: Paintings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Works of art
label: Type
content: Paintings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Paintings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of one (1) painting depicting the ruins at Casa Grande.  The painting was made by Spencer B. Nichols for the Ancient Pueblos and New Mexico exhibit at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition held in Seattle in 1909.  More information about the painting can be found in: The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 1909  Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1909, p. 42.

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