Photo caption: "Mechanical hay loader handling alfalfa."]]> 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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On verso: "Frank Housh tore this down years ago. Built a nice bungalow. He lost everything they had. Now lives in Peoria with their youngest daughter. Louella is 93, Frank, 96. The Landlady, sincere but emotional, usually led the parades in aisles during 'protracted' meetings."]]>
Franz Reisch (known as Frank Reisch after immigrating to the United States from Germany) established the Reisch Brewery in Springfield in 1849. The brewery existed for 117 years before the property was sold to Memorial Medical Center in 1966.]]>