Title	A monkey meeting
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Subjects - TGM	Caricatures Evolution Monkeys Correspondence Public speaking
Education Tags	1.41 US.38 Scopes Trial The 1920s The 1920s and the Great Depression
Subjects - LCSH	Evolution; Monkeys; Evolution (Biology) - Study and teaching - Law and legislation; Peay, Austin, 1876-1927
Description	Caricature of a politician addressing an audience of monkeys from a cracker box platform. The monkeys beg for food while the largest of them warns the others to "pay no attention to that boob, he thinks you can vote." Accompanying the caricature is letter to Governor Austin Peay which reads, "Dear Governor: This rough drawing expresses my opinion of the evolution windjammer. Respectfully Thos. Cotton."
Place	Indianola (Miss.)
Date	1925 August 21
Creator	Cotton, Thos.
Collection name	Governor Austin Peay Papers, 1923-1927
Accession number	GP 40
Owning Instituion	Tennessee State Library & Archives
ID#	33171
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Digital type	TEXT
Digital format	TIFF
Collection finding aid	http://tennessee.gov/tsla/history/govpapers/findingaids/gp40.pdf