The Civil War in Art : Teaching & Learning Through Chicago Collections

Thanksgiving in Camp

1862
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: camp life, genre scenes, home, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

1876
Edwin Forbes
Chicago Public Library

Tags: camp life, home, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

May 7, 1864
Edwin Forbes
Chicago Public Library

Tags: camp life, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

November 1862
Alexander Gardner
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: abolition, African Americans, camp life, contrabands, freedom, photographs, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

1893
John M. Copley
The Newberry Library

Tags: camp life, Chicago, Confederate, health, Illinois, illustrations, literature, post-war, prison, soldiers, The Military Experience, The Northern Homefront, Union

January 31, 1863
Alfred R. Waud
The Newberry Library

Tags: abolition, children, contrabands, emancipation, escape, family, home, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, slavery, The Military Experience

1864
William Sidney Mount
Terra Foundation for American Art

Tags: charity, paintings, soldiers, The Northern Homefront, Union

July 2, 1864
T. B. Bishop (Photographer)
The Newberry Library

Tags: abolition, African Americans, emancipation, Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom, escape, freedom, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, portraits, prints, slavery, Union

1865
George N. Barnard
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: commemorations, generals, photographs, portraits, post-war, The Military Experience, Union

1864
Private Albert E. Myers
Chicago History Museum

Tags: camp life, Chicago, Confederate, flag, home, Illinois, paintings, prison, soldiers, The Northern Homefront, Union

April 9, 1864
Unknown Artist
The Newberry Library

Tags: African Americans, children, emancipation, Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom, escape, family, freedom, home, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, slavery

1908
Lorado Taft
Chicago Public Library

Tags: Chicago, commemorations, generals, Illinois, politics, portraits, post-war, Remembering the War, sculptures, Union

1864
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: camp life, genre scenes, illustrations, landscapes, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

1940
Martyl (Suzanne Schweig Langsdorf)
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: African Americans, battles, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, death, emancipation, paintings, post-war, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

January 14, 1865
George H. Ellsbury
The Newberry Library

Tags: battles, Confederate, death, flag, generals, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union