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Title: A. L. Markwell in Los Angeles, California to Governor Austin Peay in Nashville, Tennessee
Author : A L Markwell
Recipient : Austin Peay, 1876-1927
Date Created: 1925-03-24
Abstract: Letter from A. L. Markwell to Austin Peay, then Governor of the State of Tennessee. In the letter, Mr. Markwell espresses his elation at reading about the State of Tennessee tabooing the Darwin-Huxely theory of evolution.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Governor Austin Peay Papers, 1923-1927
Contributing Institution: Tennessee State Library and Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000002593
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Title: Don't Make a Monkey out of Me
Composer; Lyricist : B. C. Hodgson
Date Created: 1925
Abstract: Sheet music for a song published at the time of the Scopes Monkey Trial, ridiculing the theory of evolution. Part of the Scopes subgroup of the John S. Mitchell Collection.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: John S. Mitchell Collection of Tennessee Music
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001495
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Title: Evolutin Riddle
Composer : Burney Williams
Lyricist : Jo McLeskey
Date Created: 1925
Abstract: Sheet music of an anti-evolution song published at the time of the John T. Scopes monkey trial. Part of the Scopes subgroup of the John S. Mitchell Collection.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: John S. Mitchell Collection of Tennessee Music
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001492
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Title: John T. Scopes Trial (The Old Religion's Better after All)
Composer; Lyricist : Carlos B. McAfee
Date Created: 1925
Abstract: Sheet music of an anti-evolution, pro-creationism song published at the time of the John T. Scopes monkey trial. Part of the Scopes subgroup of the John S. Mitchell Collection.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: John S. Mitchell Collection of Tennessee Music
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001493
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Title: Missing Link
Composer : Clarence J. Penney
Lyricist : Roscoe C. Gaige
Date Created: 1914
Abstract: Sheet music for a song in which the singer claims to be the missing evolutionary link between monkeys and humans. Part of the Scopes subgroup of the John S. Mitchell Collection.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: John S. Mitchell Collection of Tennessee Music
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001499
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Title: Missing Link
Composer : Donald Bestor
Lyricist : Emma M. Sheetz
Date Created: 1909
Abstract: Sheet music for an anti-evolution song. Takes the stance that just because people sometimes act like monkeys does not mean that they evolved from monkeys. Includes direct references to the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve. Part of the Scopes subgroup of the John S. Mitchell Collection.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: John S. Mitchell Collection of Tennessee Music
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001500
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Title: Evolution
Composer; Lyricist : E. F. Reynolds
Date Created: 1925
Abstract: Sheet music of a pro-evolution song published at the time of the John T. Scopes monkey trial. Advocates the point of view that it is possible to believe in both the Bible and the theory of evolution. Part of the Scopes subgroup of the John S. Mitchell Collection.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: John S. Mitchell Collection of Tennessee Music
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001497
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Title: Pro Bono Publico by George J. Jones to Governor Austin Peay in Nashville, Tennessee
Author : George J Jones
Copyright claimant : J O`Conner
Associated name : William Jennings Bryan, 1860-1925
Date Created: 1923
Abstract: Circular letter regarding the attacks to William Jennings Bryan for his rebuttal of the evolutionary theory that man was descended from an ape. The letter is signed by George J. Jones, Scientist and Investigator.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Governor Austin Peay Papers, 1923-1927
Contributing Institution: Tennessee State Library and Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000002592
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Title: I Hope the Monkey's Win
Composer; Lyricist : Harry O. Beck
Arranger : Roland E. Gans
Date Created: 1925
Abstract: Sheet music for a tongue-in-cheek, pro-evolution song published at the time of the John T. Scopes monkey trial. Makes direct reference to Dayton, TN and Scopes. Contains an indirect reference to prohibition in stanza 5. Part of the Scopes subgroup of the John S. Mitchell Collection.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: John S. Mitchell Collection of Tennessee Music
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001498
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Title: J. W. Howard in Greeneville, Tennessee to Governor Austin Peay in Nashville, Tennessee
Creator : J W Howard
Recipient : Austin Peay, 1876-1927
Associated name : T J Luttrell
Date Created: 1925-06-28
Abstract: Resolution of the Men`s Bible Class of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Greenville, Tennessee. This Resolution was sent to Austin Peay, then Governor of the State of Tennessee. The Resolution regards the class approving the position that the Governor took in his letter to the Superintendent of Schools in Rhea County, Tennessee.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Governor Austin Peay Papers, 1923-1927
Contributing Institution: Tennessee State Library and Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000002594
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Title: Monkey-Biznizz
Composer; Lyricist : Jerry Daly
Date Created: 1928
Abstract: Sheet music for a song about evolution published three years after the Scopes monkey trial. Mentions Darwin by name and makes indirect references to the trial and Dayton, TN. Contains eight "extra choruses" each of which recounts an anecdote involving a monkey. Part of the Scopes subgroup of the John S. Mitchell Collection.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: John S. Mitchell Collection of Tennessee Music
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001501
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Title: There's Just a Little Bit of Monkey (Still Left in You and Me)
Composer : Jimmy V. Monaco
Lyricist : Grant Clarke
Date Created: 1916
Abstract: Sheet music for a song about Darwin's theory of evolution, comparing the actions of humans to those of monkeys. Part of the Scopes subgroup of the John S. Mitchell Collection.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: John S. Mitchell Collection of Tennessee Music
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001503
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Title: John Thomas Scopes vs. State of Tennessee, Supreme Court Case Opinion
Creator : Tennessee Supreme Court
Associated name : John Thomas Scopes
Date Created: 1927-01-17
Abstract: Opinion of the Tennessee Supreme Court in the case of John Thomas Scopes vs. the State of Tennessee.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Tennessee Supreme Court Records, 1796-1955
Contributing Institution: Tennessee State Library and Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000002597
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Title: Monk's No Kin to Me (Evolution Fox Trot Song)
Composer; Lyricist : M. Azzolina
Date Created: 1925
Abstract: Sheet music of an anti-evolution song published at the time of the John T. Scopes monkey trial. First chorus makes indirect reference to prohibition by mentioning Volstead. Stanzas mention several characters from the Bible, including Adam, Eve, Jonah, and Joshway (Joshua). Part of the Scopes subgroup of the John S. Mitchell Collection.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: John S. Mitchell Collection of Tennessee Music
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001502
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Title: Tennessee Great Smoky Mountain Park Commission Meeting Minutes
Compiler : Neil F. Murphy
Date Created: 1984-10-05
Abstract: Minutes for the Tennessee Great Smoky Mountain Park Commission from the October 5, 1984 meeting at Great Smoky Mountains National Park Headquarters in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Details fiftieth anniversary activities and the status of Inadu Knob where a United States Air Force plane crashed.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Contemporary United States (1968-present)
Collection: Leroy G. Fox Collection, 1927-1999
Contributing Institution: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001584
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Title: Noel Gaines in Frankfort, Kentucky to Governor Austin Peay in Nashville, Tennessee
Author : Noel Gaines
Recipient : Austin Peay, 1876-1927
Date Created: 1925-08-16
Abstract: Letter written by Noel Gaines to Governor Austin Peay. The letter, regarding passing the anti-evolution law in the State of Tennessee, contains strong language where Mr. Gaines calls the majority of Science teachers in the country, "rank infidels, atheists, materialists, teaching a line of destruction." Mr. Gaines goes on to say that Christian people pay the bill for, "treasonable book companies who have and are printing these satan-sandwich-books."
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Governor Austin Peay Papers, 1923-1927
Contributing Institution: Tennessee State Library and Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000002595
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Title: Monkey Biz-ness (Down in Tennessee)
Composer; Lyricist : Perry Alexander, 1895-1979
Date Created: 1925
Abstract: Sheet music of a song describing the singer's unsuccessful attempts to start some "monkey biz-ness" with a girl from Tennessee named Lulu. Includes a reference to "Darwin's theory" as well as multiple jungle and monkey references. Part of the Scopes subgroup of the John S. Mitchell Collection.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: John S. Mitchell Collection of Tennessee Music
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001494
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Title: The Viewpoint of Some Tennessee Women Organizing for Temperance
Author : Sadie M. Corson
Associated name : Women`s Organization for National Prohibition Reform
Date Created: 1931
Abstract: Reprint of a speech given to the Nashville Branch of the Women`s Organization for National Prohibition Reform.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
Contributing Institution: Memphis Public Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001655
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Title: Don't Monkey with Evolution
Composer : T. N. Davies
Lyricist : J. A. Veazey
Date Created: 1925
Abstract: Sheet music for an anti-evolution, pro-creationism song published at the time of the John T. Scopes monkey trial. Part of the Scopes subgroup of the John S. Mitchell Collection.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: John S. Mitchell Collection of Tennessee Music
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001496
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Title: A Monkey Meeting caricature from Thomas Cotten in Mississippi to Governor Austin Peay in Nashville, Tennessee
Creator : Thomas Cotten
Recipient : Austin Peay, 1876-1927
Date Created: 1925
Abstract: Caricature created by Thomas Cotten that was sent to Governor Austin Peay. The caricature depicts a politician standing on a cracker box platform speaking to an audience of monkeys. One of the monkeys is telling his fellows to pay no attention to the politician because the politician thinks they can vote.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Governor Austin Peay Papers, 1923-1927
Contributing Institution: Tennessee State Library and Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000001242
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Title: Beware! The Negro and the New Social Order
Creator : unknown
Date Created: 1919 - 1920
Abstract: This broadside, published by some unattributed opponent of women`s suffrage, warns Southern men of the threat to states` rights if women attain the right to vote. It states that woman suffrage will reopen the question of Negro suffrage and bring another wave of female carpetbaggers. It contains excerpts from "The Negro and the New Social Order," which had been printed in The Messenger, published by A. Phillip Randolph as the "only radical Negro magazine in America."
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Contributing Institution: Tennessee State Library and Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001606
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Title: Rhea County Courthouse
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1925
Abstract: 2 tifs. Two black and white photographs of the Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton, Tennessee. The Rhea County courthouse was constructed in 1890-1891 in the Romanesque Revival and Italian Villa style, with two large towers at either end of the building. The northeast tower is the clock tower with a central octagonal lantern below an open pavilion. The building was added to the National Registry of Historic Places in 1972, as it was the focal point of the Scopes Trial of the summer of 1925. William Jennings Bryan prosecuted the case for the state, alleging that Scopes violated a ban on teaching evolution in the classroom. Clarence Darrow unsuccessfully defended Scopes, who was charged with a fine of $100 at the conclusion of the trial.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Scopes Photography Collection
Contributing Institution: Bryan College
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000001607
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Title: The courthouse in Dayton, Tennessee
Printer : unknown
Date Created: 1915 - 1930
Abstract: This postcard shows the Rhea County Courthouse. This was the site of the famous "Scope's Tial" that pitted William Jennings Bryan, speaking on behalf of divine creation, against Clarence Darrow, who defended the Darwinian concept of evolution.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Clyde W. Roddy Public Library
Contributing Institution: Clyde W. Roddy Public Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002139
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Title: When My Great-Grand-Daddy and My Great-Grand-Mammy (Used to Cuddle and Coo in a Cocoanut-Tree)
Composer : Will E. Skidmore
Lyricist : Marshall Walker
Date Created: 1917
Abstract: Sheet music for a song about Darwin's theory of evolution in which the singer is imagining the actions of his/her ancestors while still primates. Part of the Scopes subgroup of the John S. Mitchell Collection.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: John S. Mitchell Collection of Tennessee Music
Contributing Institution: Center for Popular Music
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001504
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Title: William Jennings Bryan and John Washington Butler
Associated name : William Jennings Bryan, 1860-1925
Associated name : John Washington Butler
Date Created: 1925-01-01
Abstract: Photograph of William Jennings Bryan and John Washington Butler seated at a table. John W. Butler (1875-1952) represented Macon, Trousdale, and Sumner Counties in the Tennessee House and Senate. He was the author of the Butler Act (a state anti-evolution law).
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Library Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution: Tennessee State Library and Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000002698
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