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

Ships Unloading, New York

1868
Samuel Colman, Jr.
Terra Foundation for American Art

Tags: Causes of the War, city, cotton, paintings, Slavery and Abolition

Lincoln Catafalque

1865
H. W. Immke Studio
Chicago Public Library

Tags: Chicago, children, city, death, Illinois, Lincoln, Lincoln's funeral, mourning, photographs, post-war, soldiers, Union

View of the Famous Levee of New Orleans

1860
Unknown Artist
Chicago History Museum

Tags: Causes of the War, city, Confederate, cotton, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, slavery, Slavery and Abolition

After the Sale: Slaves Going South from Richmond

1853
Eyre Crowe
Chicago History Museum

Tags: African Americans, Causes of the War, children, city, family, paintings, pre-war, slavery, Slavery and Abolition, women

Main Building of the Great North Western Sanitary Fair, Chicago

1865
Louis Kurz, Lithographer: Baker & Co.
Chicago History Museum

Tags: charity, Chicago, children, city, family, flag, health, Illinois, prints, soldiers, The Northern Homefront, Union

Republican Wigwam Erected at Chicago

1860
Attributed to William Thomas Law
Chicago History Museum

Tags: Chicago, city, flag, Illinois, paintings, politics, pre-war, The Northern Homefront

Michigan Avenue from the Lake

1866
Louis Kurz and the Chicago Lithographing Company
Chicago History Museum

Tags: Chicago, city, Illinois, post-war, prints, The Northern Homefront

Tremont House

1866
Louis Kurz and the Chicago Lithographing Company
Chicago History Museum

Tags: Chicago, children, city, family, flag, home, Illinois, politics, post-war, prints, The Northern Homefront, women

Lincoln's Drive Through Richmond

1866
Dennis Malone Carter
Chicago History Museum

Tags: children, city, commemorations, family, flag, freedom, Lincoln, paintings, post-war, Remembering the War, soldiers, Union

Funeral procession outside Cook County Court House, May 1, 1865

1865
Unknown Artist
Chicago History Museum

Tags: assassination, Chicago, city, Illinois, Lincoln, Lincoln's funeral, mourning, photographs, post-war, Union

Funeral Car

c. 1865
Augustus Tholey
Chicago History Museum

Tags: assassination, city, death, Lincoln, Lincoln's funeral, mourning, prints

Emancipation Proclamation

1919
E. G. Renesch, Chicago
Chicago History Museum

Tags: African Americans, Chicago, children, city, commemorations, emancipation, family, flag, freedom, home, Illinois

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