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

The Seceding South Carolina Delegation

December 22, 1860
Mathew Brady (Photographer)
The Newberry Library

Tags: Causes of the War, Confederate, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, photographs, politics, portraits, pre-war, prints, secession, Slavery and Abolition

Sojourner Truth Abolitionist Visits President Lincoln

1963
Berry Horton
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: abolition, African Americans, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, paintings, photographs, portraits, post-war, Remembering the War, slavery, women

Harriet Tubman

c. 1963
R. Furan
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: abolition, African Americans, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom, escape, freedom, paintings, portraits, post-war, slavery, women

Harriet Tubman

1964
Shirley Firestone
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: African Americans, Causes of the War, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, escape, freedom, paintings, portraits, post-war, slavery, Slavery and Abolition, women

Lincoln Douglas Debate at Alton, Illinois

1963
William Sylvester Carter
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: Causes of the War, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, flag, Illinois, Lincoln, paintings, politics, portraits, post-war, slavery, Westward Expansion

Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States

1860
Currier and Ives
Chicago Public Library

Tags: Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, photographs, politics, portraits, pre-war, prints, Union

Members of Morgan's Raiders at Camp Douglas

1864
Unknown Artist
Chicago History Museum

Tags: camp life, Chicago, Confederate, escape, Illinois, photographs, portraits, prison, soldiers, The Northern Homefront, Union

Lincoln the Rail-splitter

Temporary version 1909, cast in bronze 1911
Charles J. Mulligan
Chicago Park District

Tags: Chicago, Classical, commemorations, Illinois, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, monuments, politics, portraits, post-war, sculptures, Union

Abraham Lincoln, Head of State (Seated Lincoln)

Cast 1908, installed 1926
Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Stanford White
Chicago Park District

Tags: Chicago, Classical, commemorations, flag, Illinois, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, monuments, portraits, post-war, sculptures, Union

John Alexander Logan Monument

1897
Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Alexander Phimister Proctor
Chicago Park District

Tags: Chicago, Classical, commemorations, flag, generals, Illinois, monuments, portraits, post-war, Remembering the War, sculptures, soldiers, Union

General Philip Henry Sheridan Monument

1923
John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum
Chicago Park District

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

Abraham Lincoln: The Man (The Standing Lincoln)

1887
Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Stanford White
Chicago Park District

Tags: Chicago, Classical, commemorations, flag, Illinois, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, monuments, portraits, post-war, sculptures, Union

Ulysses S. Grant Memorial

1891
Louis T. Rebisso
Chicago Park District

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

The Young Lincoln

c. 1945
Charles Keck
Chicago Park District

Tags: Chicago, commemorations, Illinois, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, monuments, portraits, post-war, sculptures, Union

A Woman in Battle: Michigan Bridget Carrying the Flag

1887
Felix Octavius Carr Darley (draftsman)
John J. Cade (engraver)
The Newberry Library

Tags: battles, Confederate, death, flag, illustrations, literature, portraits, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union, women

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Image Gallery (43 total)

The Seceding South Carolina Delegation

Sojourner Truth Abolitionist Visits President Lincoln

Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman

Lincoln Douglas Debate at Alton, Illinois

Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States

Members of Morgan's Raiders at Camp Douglas

Lincoln the Rail-splitter

Abraham Lincoln, Head of State (Seated Lincoln)

John Alexander Logan Monument

General Philip Henry Sheridan Monument

Abraham Lincoln: The Man (The Standing Lincoln)

Ulysses S. Grant Memorial

The Young Lincoln

A Woman in Battle: Michigan Bridget Carrying the Flag