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

Republican Standard Bearers Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin

1860
Newton Briggs (Photographer)
The Newberry Library

Tags: Causes of the War, Illinois, Lincoln, photographs, politics, pre-war, prints, The Election of 1860 and Secession

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

Tags: Causes of the War, children, family, landscapes, paintings, portraits, pre-war, Westward Expansion, women

Frederick Douglass

1847/52
Samuel J. Miller
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: abolition, African Americans, Causes of the War, freedom, photographs, politics, portraits, pre-war, slavery, Slavery and Abolition

Antislavery Picnic at Weymouth Landing, Massachusetts

1845
Susan Torrey Merritt
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: abolition, African Americans, Causes of the War, children, family, flag, freedom, genre scenes, landscapes, paintings, politics, pre-war, Slavery and Abolition, women

Daniel Webster

1853
Thomas Ball
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: Causes of the War, Classical, politics, portraits, pre-war, sculptures, Westward Expansion

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

Tags: African Americans, Causes of the War, cotton, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, pre-war, 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

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

The Railsplitter

1860
Unknown Artist
Chicago History Museum

Tags: Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, paintings, politics, portraits, pre-war

The Auction Sale

1852
Hammatt Billings
The Newberry Library

Tags: African Americans, Causes of the War, family, illustrations, literature, pre-war, slavery, Slavery and Abolition, women

Eliza's Flight: A Scene from Uncle Tom's Cabin

1852
Unknown Artist
The Newberry Library

Tags: abolition, African Americans, Causes of the War, children, escape, family, freedom, illustrations, literature, pre-war, slavery, Slavery and Abolition, women

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