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The Scopes Trial
A photographic portrait of defense attorney Clarence Darrow.

A photographic portrait of defense attorney Clarence Darrow.

Citation Information
“Clarence Darrow,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/2e49662fd673cfa94ba16ba51651aeb6.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of Los Angeles Public Library via California Digital Library.

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Item 12 of 15 in the Primary Source Set The Scopes Trial

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A photo of John Thomas Scopes in June 1925.
A photo of the Dayton, Tennessee, high school in June 1925.
A photo of scientists asked to testify for the defense, July 1925.
An excerpt from A Civic Biology: Presented in Problems, by George William Hunter, 1914.
An excerpt from A School History of Tennessee, 1919, discussing the importance of religion in the state.
A record of witness testimony, from the record and documents of the Scopes trial, 1925.
A 1925 photo of defense lawyer Arthur Garfield Hays reading scientists’ testimony into the record, near a “Read Your Bible” sign.
A 1925 photo of defense lawyer Clarence S. Darrow interrogating prosecutor William Jennings Bryan during the Scopes trial.
A 1925 photo of outdoor court proceedings showing William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow.
A photo of zoologist Maynard Mayo Metcalf, the only scientist allowed to testify on the stand at the Scopes trial.
An excerpt from Maynard Mayo Metcalf’s book showing an illustrated outline of his “theory of organic evolution,” 1906.
A photographic portrait of defense attorney Clarence Darrow.
A portrait of William Jennings Bryan.
A 1935 political cartoon, “New Exhibit in the Hall of Fame.”
An excerpt from Bryan and Darrow at Dayton: the record and documents of the "Bible-evolution trial,” 1925.

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