Clarence S. Darrow (center) standing near Rhea County Courthouse with unidentified man (left) and Arthur Garfield Hays (right), Dayton, Tennessee, probably July 20, 1925.

The Smithsonian Institution has uploaded 10 more photos to its Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes Trial set, and is looking for some help identifying some of the people shown. Are they locals from Dayton, Tennessee? Visitors there for the trial?

The Smithsonian adds,

The donor, Henrietta Silverman, gave us the photos that her father, William Silverman, took on a trip with his high school science teacher. It’s kind of a nice story. She wanted them to be part of an archive that values making their collections accessible to the public. Go Commons!

Thank you, Henrietta Silverman!

As well as the Ansel Adams set belonging to new Commons member the U.S. National Archives, this week’s highlights include:

The Swedish National Heritage Board has uploaded more of Carl Curman’s honeymoon photos, including another unidentified site in Spain.

Unidentified town, Spain

The Field Museum brings us new (to the Commons) photographs from British Guiana in the 1920s.

Two women with buckets seated at waterside

It’s fishing season at State Library and Archives of Florida – for big fish.

Mr. John Hachmeister and Mrs. Earl Baum admiring a 1,200 lb manta ray caught by Forrest Walker

The Library of Congress’s Friday upload this week is a set of illustrated newspaper covers of 1910 – one hundred years ago.

How much can Gotham afford to give thirsty neighbors?

It’s winter in the Netherlands – time for winter sports at Nationaal Archief!

Bobsleeën, skeleton / Bobsleigh, skeleton

LIGC ~ NLW brings us portraits and people outdoors from Wales, including a dog that’s far too happy for the shutter speed of the camera.

Girl with a dog, Llansanffraid [Glynceiriog?]

The State Library of Queensland, Australia has a set of colourful postcards of Queensland.

Band Rotunda in Queen’s Park, Maryborough, ca. 1930

Ansel Adams, Boulder with hill in background, "Rocks at Silver Gate, Yellowstone National Park," Wyoming

New to the Commons today – but with months of uploads to contribute – is the U.S. National Archives. Thanks to President Franklin Roosevelt’s foresightedness and the Archives’ persistence in the difficult job of selecting from the vast quantity of material produced by the U.S. Government every year that portion which will be “of continuing value“, the U.S. National Archives’ Commons collection is already almost 4,000 images strong.

And what a collection it is – nearly 500 photographs by the great Civil War photographer Mathew Brady; a wide-ranging selection of photographs from the Environmental Protection Agency’s 1970s photography project DOCUMERICA, organized by photographer; 220 photographs, made available today, by the incomparable Ansel Adams; and so much more.

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