Photo dedication: "To Evan Howell, With regards, Les Arends."]]>
Photo dedication: "To my friend and colleague, Evan. Leo E. Allen. 1943."]]>
Photo dedication: "To my friend and colleague of the 77th Congress Evan Howell. Sincerely, Runt."]]>
Photo dedication: "To Congressman Evan Howell: With sincere regards, Hugh W. Cross."]]>
Photo dedication: "To Honorable Evan Howell with best wishes, Everett M. Dirksen M.C."]]>
Photo dedication: "2/22/44. With every good wish to my loyal friend and fine statesman Honorable Evan Howell. J. Harry McGregor, M.C. 17th Ohio."]]>
From left to right: Elbert S. Smith, Auditor of Public Accounts; Charles Carpentier, Secretary of State; William G. Stratton, Governor of Illinois; Richard M. Nixon, Vice President of the United States; Everett Dirksen, Illinois Senator; John W. Chapman, Lieutenant Governor; Latham Castle, Illinois Attorney General; Lula Fae Isenberg Searcy, Clerk of the Illinois Supreme Court; and Elmer J. Hoffman, State Treasurer.]]>
Individuals in the portrait include Everett Dirksen (1st row, far left), Jessie Sumner (1st row, second from left), Leo E. Allen (1st row, center), Leslie C. Arends (1st row, second from right), George Evan Howell (2nd row, far left), C. W. Bishop (2nd row, fifth from left), and William G. Stratton (2nd row, fourth from right).

]]> A group of men pose for a portrait while meeting about nominating Frank O. Lowden Governor of Illinois in 1916.

Photo dedication: "To my good friend Even Howell with cordial holiday greetings. 'For your archives' Leslie P. 'Ike' Volk, Dec 1949."

On verso: "Reading from left to right, James A. Pugh, 'The Millionaire Sportsman'; Albert C. Clark, Illinois Senator; William H. Reid, Chicago Smoke Inspector; Leslie P. "Ike" Volz; Frank O. Lowden, Oregon, Ill.; Geo. W. Bolling, South Chicago Publisher; Percy B. Coffin, Pres., City Civil Service Commission; Harry B. Ward, downstate Ill. Republican leader; Mayor Wm. Hale Thompson, Chicago; State Senator George F. Harding, 1st Dist., Illinois, later City Comptroller and County Treasurer: former Congressman Frederick Lundin, Chicago, self-styled "Poor Swede"; Al Mohr, South Side Chicago Business Man."

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