A Pictorial Guide to Mesa Verde National Park
Scene 16. Dr. J. Walter Fewkes of the Smithsonian Institution and a
digging crew repairing Spruce Tree Ruin and stabilizing its walls in 1908, and Cliff Palace during the following year, and most of the other big ruins during the next thirteen years—stabilization and research that continues today under the National Park Service, assisted by the National Geographic Society.