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

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

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

Portraits of Mrs. John A. Logan and Dollie Logan

c. 1858-1864
John Alexander Logan
Chicago History Museum

Tags: children, family, generals, photographs, portraits, soldiers, The Northern Homefront, Union, women

Portrait of John F. P. Robie

c. 1861
Unknown Artist
Chicago History Museum

Tags: children, photographs, portraits, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

Sherman and His Generals

1865
George N. Barnard
The Art Institute of Chicago

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

What Do I Want, John Henry?

November 1862
Alexander Gardner
The Art Institute of Chicago

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

Incidents of the War: Battery D, 5th U.S. Artillery in Action

1863
Timothy O'Sullivan
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: battles, photographs, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter

1863
Alexander Gardner
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: battles, Confederate, death, landscapes, photographs, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg

1863
Timothy O'Sullivan
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: battles, Confederate, death, landscapes, photographs, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

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

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

Campaign ribbon, A. Lincoln

1860
John Chester Buttre
Chicago Public Library

Tags: Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, photographs, politics, prints

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