Title from caption on object: “Opening Day of Scopes Trial"
July 10, 1925
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Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 18.2 × 23.8 cm (7 3/16 × 9 3/8 in.)
sheet: 20.3 × 25.5 cm (8 × 10 1/16 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.280
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, RMY Auctions, Wilder, ID); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
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Inscriptions
by unknown hand, upper left in negative: 115; on verso, upper left printed in black ink on applied paper: WATCH YOUR CREDIT / CH 8428; upper right: INTERNATIONAL -CHICA[G]O / 7-11-25; center: OPENING DAY OF SCOPES [circled in graphite] TRIAL / THIS PICTURE, MADE IN THE COURTROOM OF JUDGE JOHN RALSTON AT / DAYTONTENN. [sic], IS GENERAL VIEW OF THE COURTROOM WHEN THE TRIAL OF / JOHN T. SCOPES CHARGED WITH HAVING VIOLATED THE ANTI EVOLUTIONLAW [sic] / OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE OPENED. SENT TO ALL BUREAUS AND HEARST / PAPERS, (EXAM); center International Newsreel copyright stamp in black ink inverted and partially visible; by unknown hand, lower left in graphite inverted: 8428