PLATE 27

Frederick Hamerstrom, Ruby (Hamerstrom) Darrow’s brother, ca. 1900

PLATE 28

Darrow at a portrait studio in Los Angeles, 1911.

PLATE 29

Paul Darrow, ca. 1920s.

PLATE 30

Darrow’s letter to his son on 5 December 1911, the day the McNamara brothers were sentenced; at that time, rumors were circulating that Darrow had been involved in bribing jurors.

PLATE 31

Upton Sinclair, ca. 1930s, reformer and writer. Sinclair knew Darrow as early as 1905, when he asked Darrow to review his now-famous novel, The Jungle, to determine whether it might be libelous. (Photo: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, reproduction no. LC-DIG-gg-bain- 06185)

PLATE 32

Vivian Pierce, ca. 1910, when she was a suffragist and approximately fifteen years before she formed the League to Abolish Capital Punishment. (Photo: Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman’s Party, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress)

PLATE 33

Frank Walsh, 1915. Darrow testified before the United States Commission on Industrial Relations—for which Walsh was chairman—the year this picture was taken. (Photo: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, reproduction no. LC-USZ62–117861

PLATE 34

Darrow at a hearing for Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, 1924. Benjamin Bachrach, Darrow’s co-counsel, is on the left and Leopold and Loeb are between Bachrach and Darrow. (Photo: DN-0078021, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago History Museum)

PLATE 35

A bookplate with an Arts-and-Crafts design that Darrow used for many of his books. The bookplate was likely designed by someone associated with C. L. (Coella Lindsay) Ricketts (1859–1941), a Chicago calligrapher and illuminator who republished Darrow’s book of essays (A Persian Pearl) in 1902.

PLATE 36

Mary Field Parton and Lemuel Parton with their daughter Margaret, in a passport photo, 1923. (Photo: Margaret Parton Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries)

PLATE 37

H. L. Mencken, 1928. (Photo: Enoch Pratt Free Library, Maryland’s State Library Resource Center, Baltimore, Maryland)

PLATE 38

Frederick Starr, an anthropologist at the University of Chicago, 1909. Darrow and Starr would publicly debate questions such as “Is the Human Race Getting Anywhere?” and “Is Civilization a Failure?” Darrow always took the pessimistic position. (Photo: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, reproduction no. LC-DIG-ggbain-01258)

PLATE 39

Sara Bard Field and Charles Erskine Scott Wood, ca. 1926 (Photo: Oregon Historical Society Research Library, bb002909; © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust)

PLATE 40

Fremont Older, editor of the San Francisco Bulletin and later editor of the San Francisco Call and then the Call-Bulletin, 1930. (Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library).

PLATE 41

Darrow and William Jennings Bryan during the Scopes trial, July 1925. “I made up my mind to show the country what an ignoramus [Bryan] was and I succeeded, but I only had two hours of him and wanted another day.” Darrow to Mencken, 5 August 1925

PLATE 42

Darrow and John T. Raulston, the judge who presided over the Scopes trial in Tennessee, 12 July 1925. “The judge may be glad he has a limited education. One cannot always avoid being ignorant, but few boast of it.” Darrow to the Daily News, 11 August 1925. (Photo: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, reproduction no. LC-USZ62–95411)

PLATE 43

Darrow in the Ozarks, 1926. (Photo: Carol Johnstone, from the estate of her mother, Joan Hamerstrom Hawley).

PLATE 44

Darrow and Sinclair Lewis in Kansas City, 1926, where Lewis was writing Elmer Gantry. The photograph was taken on the roof of the Muehlebach Hotel. (Photo: Carol Johnstone, from the estate of her mother, Joan Hamerstrom Hawley).

PLATE 45

James Weldon Johnson, December 1932. “I am delighted with your new volume of poems ‘God’s Trombones.’ It is the only Fundamentalists output I ever did like.” Darrow to Johnson, 6 June 1927 (Photo: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, reproduction no. LC-USZ62– 42498)

PLATE 46

E. W. Scripps, ca. 1920–24. “I have seen so many radicals broke in their last years that I always had a foolish & unholy fear of alms, and inconvenience.” Darrow to Scripps, 16 February 1923. (Photo: E. W. Scripps Archive, Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Ohio University Libraries)

PLATE 47

Negley Cochran, the editor for E. W. Scripps's ad-less Chicago newspaper, The Day Book, ca. 1920. (Photo: E. W. Scripps Archive, Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Ohio University Libraries)

PLATE 48

Darrow with a stack of mail during the Scopes trial, 18 July 1925. “Most of the mail people like you & I receive are from cranks and can generally be told by reading the address. Much of it is from noteriety seekers engaged in getting autographs; they care nothing about us.” Darrow to Benjamin Lindsey, 17 December 1929.

PLATE 49

Darrow in Jackson Park, Chicago, near his apartment building, 1932. The first half of the inscription to Darrow’s brother-in-law, Frederick Hamerstrom, is in Darrow’s hand; the second half is in Ruby’s hand.

PLATE 50

Harry Elmer Barnes, 1929. “The calendar and various other hunches constantly warn me that there are only a few more speeches and debates left in me, and I am so relieved when I look at you.” Darrow to Barnes, 8 February 1931. (Photo: Henry Elmer Barnes Collection, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming)

PLATE 51

Calvin Coolidge and Helen Keller, 11 January 1926. “I appreciate being put on the board or acting in any capacity with you in the work. The only objection I have is seeing the name of Hon. Calvin Coolidge above mine, but when I remember that you probably object to it as much as I do, I do not mind.” Darrow to Keller, 1 December 1928. (Photo: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, reproduction no. LC-USZ62–111737)

PLATE 52

Lewis Lawes, warden at Sing Sing Prison, ca. 1910–15. “I want to get your stuff a wider circulation, and then it will help me to have the public know that I know you. It is a sign of social standing to be a friend of a warden . . .” Darrow to Lawes, 16 January 1932. (Photo: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, reproduction no. LC-DIG-ggbain-16342)

PLATE 53

Frank Murphy, 1930. Darrow told Murphy, who presided at the Sweet trial in 1926, that “the Detroit case . . . was the first time in all my career where a judge really tried to help, and displayed a sympathetic interest in saving poor devils from the extreme forces of the law, rather than otherwise.” Darrow to Murphy, 9 October 1935. (Photo: Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University)

PLATE 54

Ruby and Darrow in their passport photo, ca. 1929.

PLATE 55

Darrow’s letter to Paul on 12 May 1936: “I have told Ruby that I shall arrange with you that she can keep the apartment where we live for six months after my death and that you will pay the rent. This is done so that she can dispose of the furniture, books and the things that pertain to me and my life, in the apartment.”

PLATE 56

A card announcing the sale of Darrow’s library after his death. The sale was handled by Kroch’s Bookstores in Chicago, as an agent for Ruby.