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Statesman Samuel Witwer stands in thought at a podium.

Samuel Witwer appears at an event in Quincy.

Samuel Witwer speaks at an event.

Samuel Witwer (left), chairman of the Gateway Amendment Campaign, stands with William N. Erickson, President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, as he signs his support during the Gateway Amendment Campaign.

Samuel Witwer stands at the microphone during an event.

Photo of Mission building

An overhead view shows the sand boil at 23rd Street and Poplar Street in Cairo.

A close up view shows the interior of the sand boil at 40th Street in Cairo.

Several men stand next to a pile of sand bags at the sand boil at 40th Street in Cairo.

Several men stand at one of Cairo's major sand boils at 27th Street and Commercial Avenue.

A man works at the sand boil at 27th Street and Commercial Avenue in Cairo.

A view of the beginning of three sand boils at Future City, 1 mile north of Cairo. On verso: "Not large enough to work."

Works Progress Administration men remove sandbags from McKinley Street in front of Everybody's Drug Store in Harrisburg.

Two construction workers finishing laying a new plank sidewalk outside the Sandburg home in Galesburg.

Drilling rigs drill to 1550 feet at the Sandoval oil field in Marion County.

Open space surrounds the western portion of the Sandoval oil field in Marion County.

Several oil rigs stand in the eastern portion of the Sandoval oil field in Marion County, Illinois.

Sandra Stratton poses for a portrait wearing a dark drape over her shoulders.