Group of lawyers, scientists, and supporters assembled during the Scopes anti-evolution trial, Dayton, Tennessee
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Date: 1925
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 97-020, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2007-0119
Lawyers, scientists, and supporters of John T. Scopes, assembled on the steps of "Defense Mansion" outside Dayton, Tennessee, July 1925. Standing at left is Judge John R. Neal, the Knoxville, Tennessee, attorney who represented Scopes; standing at right is Neal's brother-in-law, W.E. Wheelock, superintendent of the Southern Pacific Railroad Terminal in Chattanooga. In back row are Kansas publisher E. Haldeman-Julius, Dayton businessman George Washington Rappleyea, and Science Service journalists Frank Thone and Watson Davis. In the middle row are biologist Maynard Mayo Metcalf, theologian Charles Francis Potter, defense court stenographer Mr. McCleskey, biologist William Allison Kepner, and Scopes defense attorney Arthur Garfield Hays. In the front row are Wilbur Armstrong Nelson, anthropologist Fay-Cooper Cole, biologist Winterton Conway Curtis, Horatio Hackett Newman, and Jacob Goodale Lipman.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 97-020, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2007-0119
Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
Dayton (Tenn.)
Black-and-white photographs
SIA Acc. 97-020 [SIA2007-0119]