9x11 black and white publicity photograph of Clarence Darrow wearing a suit and tie. Photograph inscribed and signed: "Clarence Darrow/Warmest wishes to/Gifford Ernest/Chicago Feb'y 2, 1936". B/w, 9x11 overall, image 7½x9¼ (one surface). Attorney Clarence Darrow (1857-1938), who specialized in corporate law, shot to fame in 1894, when he defended American Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs, President of the American Railroad Union, arrested on a federal contempt of court charge arising from a strike at the Chicago Pullman Palace Car Company. Although Darrow lost the case, he won a national reputation as a champion of radical causes. A brilliant orator and a master of reforming the law, framing pleas and eliciting evidence, he became one of America's most renowned defense lawyers, and he used his position to campaign against capital punishment. In his sixties, Darrow successfully defended Leopold and Loeb (1924) in getting life imprisonment instead of death for kidnapping and killing a 13-year-old boy. In 1925, he defended John T. Scopes, accused of violating a Tennessee law by teaching evolution, in the "Scopes Monkey Trial". Darrow's autobiography, The Story of My Life, was published in 1932. Blank areas are lightly soiled. Lightly creased.

Partly Printed DS: "B. Young" as President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 3¾x2, irregularly cut. Great Salt Lake City, Utah, 1849 January 20. Note for "Two DOLLARS on demand" to "N.K. Whitney or bearer". Also signed: "H.C. Kimball" as member of First Council of the Twelve and "Thos. Bullock" as Clerk. BRIGHAM YOUNG (1801-1877) was the second President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at the time he signed this legal tender, which kept Mormon money internal in order to fuel Young's powerful financial cooperative. Young, known for leading the Saints to the Great Salt Lake Valley (1846-1847), became the Mormon Church's second President in 1847. Once in Utah, he established aggressive immigration and colonization programs that gathered European converts and established Mormon programs throughout the western United States. HEBER C. KIMBALL (1801-1868) had been an original member of the Council of Twelve under the church's first President, Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805-1844). He continued to serve in that capacity under Young from 1847 until his death in 1868. NEWELL K.