Three men standing in front of Robinson's Drugstore, Dayton, Tennessee
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Download IIIF ManifestRequest permissionsDownload image PrintID: SIA Acc. 10-042 [2009-21072]
Creator: Silverman, William
Form/Genre: Black-and-white negatives
Date: 1925
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 10-042, Image No. 2009-21072
Frank Earle Robinson (at right) owned the drugstore where local business leaders persuaded schoolteacher John Thomas Scopes to consent to be charged with violating state law by teaching about evolution. The sign on the tabletop says: "AT THIS TABLE THE SCOPES EVOLUTION CASE WAS STARTED MAY 5, 1925." In the days preceding and during the trial, Robinson, Scopes, and others frequently posed for photographs around the table. The two men at left are possibly Dayton attorneys Ben G. McKenzie and Herbert E. Hicks, who were part of the prosecution team.
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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 10-042, Image No. 2009-21072
Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
Evolution
Black-and-white negatives
SIA Acc. 10-042 [2009-21072]
Cellulose nitrate film; 120mm