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[Clarence Darrow, bust portrait, at Dayton, Tennessee, during Scopes trial] – Historic Photograph Print

[Clarence Darrow, bust portrait, at Dayton, Tennessee, during Scopes trial] — historic photograph
[Clarence Darrow, bust portrait, at Dayton, Tennessee, during Scopes trial]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Clarence Darrow, the Chicago defense lawyer, sits for this bust portrait taken in Dayton, Tennessee, in the summer of 1925, while the Scopes "Monkey Trial" was underway. John T. Scopes, a high school teacher, had been charged under a state law that barred teaching human evolution in public schools, and Darrow led his defense alongside other attorneys. The small mountain town became a national stage, drawing reporters, crowds and visitors, and Darrow's face in pictures like this one became familiar to readers following the case. The image captures him at the center of a trial that turned a local prosecution into a broad debate over science, religion and academic freedom.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[1925]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,095 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-121143

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