Image Gallery (14 total)
The Seceding South Carolina Delegation
December 22, 1860
Mathew Brady (Photographer)
The Newberry Library
Republican Standard Bearers Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin
1860
Newton Briggs (Photographer)
The Newberry Library
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
The Promised Land—The Grayson Family
1850
William S. Jewett
Terra Foundation for American Art
Frederick Douglass
1847/52
Samuel J. Miller
The Art Institute of Chicago
Antislavery Picnic at Weymouth Landing, Massachusetts
1845
Susan Torrey Merritt
The Art Institute of Chicago
Daniel Webster
1853
Thomas Ball
The Art Institute of Chicago
America
1850/54
Hiram Powers
The Art Institute of Chicago
Tags: Causes of the War, Classical, flag, politics, pre-war, sculptures, Westward Expansion, women
Cotton Pressing in Louisiana
April 12, 1856
A. Hill
Chicago History Museum
After the Sale: Slaves Going South from Richmond
1853
Eyre Crowe
Chicago History Museum
Republican Wigwam Erected at Chicago
1860
Attributed to William Thomas Law
Chicago History Museum
The Railsplitter
1860
Unknown Artist
Chicago History Museum
The Auction Sale
1852
Hammatt Billings
The Newberry Library
Eliza's Flight: A Scene from Uncle Tom's Cabin
1852
Unknown Artist
The Newberry Library