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Me thinks Watson was distracted from the main events of the trial. I love pondering the humanity of the man behind the camera as well as those at whom he pointed the lens.

We're looking for your help! Please help us identify the unnamed in this photograph in the comments below. This photo is featured in a post on the Smithsonian Institution Archives' blog, THE BIGGER PICTURE.

This is Andrewena Robinson Davis, daughter of F.E. Robinson. My Grandmother.

The woman in the photo numbered SIA2008-1093 is my birthmother, Andrewena Robinson (Davis). She is the daughter of F. E. (Frank Earle) Robinson in whose drug store the idea to test the Butler Act started. The test rial evolved into the famous Scopes Trial.

If Rosetti had taken photographs.... Simply gorgeous!

Probably Constance E. Fairchild, see article in The New York Times, May 4, 1917 A photo of her is in The sun., November 26, 1916, SECTION 3, Image 25 (& text in col.4 and next page)

Her husband, Frederic Courtland Penfield:

Wikipedia (using Political Graveyard as a source) indicates that he was married twice. His second wife, Anne (Weightman) Walker, whom he married in 1908, seems more likely for a photograph used in 1913. 6/20/1913 (date written on negative) is about the time her husband was nominated as ambassador to Austria-Hungary. This photo is probably from earlier, since she was approaching 60 in 1913. According to her obituary in the NYT select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20D17F6355B1373... [subscription required] her first husband was Robert J.C. Walker bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000066

See also www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3842837558/ of the couple

Yes, looks like the same woman, just maybe a little younger.

As a reminder, I started a biography of her husband here in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Courtland_Penfield