Meeting at Summer Home of Senator Albert Clark

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Title

Meeting at Summer Home of Senator Albert Clark

Subject

Pugh, James A.
Clark, Albert C.
Reid, William H.
Volz, Leslie P.
Lowden, Frank O. (Frank Orren), 1861-1943
Bolling, George W.
Coffin, Percy B.
Ward, Harry B.
Thompson, William Hale, 1869-1944
Harding, George F., 1868-1939
Lundin, Frederick
Mohr, Al

Description

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."

Publisher

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

Date

5/16/1915

Language

eng

Identifier

400913
Evan Howell Collection

Original Format

commercial print
b&w
2
21 x 26 cm