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

Funeral Car

c. 1865
Augustus Tholey
Chicago History Museum

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

The Assassination of President Lincoln

1865
Currier and Ives
Chicago History Museum

Tags: assassination, Confederate, family, flag, Lincoln, prints, soldiers, Union, women

Come and Join Us Brothers

1864
P. S. Duval and Son
Chicago History Museum

Tags: African Americans, camp life, emancipation, Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom, flag, freedom, home, prints, soldiers, Union

The United States General Hospital

July 6, 1861
Unknown Artist
The Newberry Library

Tags: charity, children, death, family, health, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union, women

The Myriopticon (Realia): Historical Panorama: The Rebellion

Not after 1890
Unknown Artist
The Newberry Library

Tags: camp life, Causes of the War, children, prints, soldiers, The Election of 1860 and Secession, Union

The Effects of the Proclamation

February 21, 1863
Unknown Soldier
The Newberry Library

Tags: abolition, African Americans, children, emancipation, Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom, family, freedom, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, Union

The Cotton Kingdom

1863
Edward Atkinson
The Newberry Library

Tags: Causes of the War, Confederate, cotton, prints, slavery, Slavery and Abolition, Union

The Sanitary Fair at Brooklyn

March 5, 1864
Unknown Artist
The Newberry Library

Tags: charity, children, family, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, The Northern Homefront, Union, women

Resurrection of Henry Box Brown

1872
Unknown Artist
The Newberry Library

Tags: abolition, African Americans, Causes of the War, escape, freedom, illustrations, literature, prints, slavery, Slavery and Abolition

Patriot Mother at Her Boy's Grave

1865
Unknown Artist
The Newberry Library

Tags: children, death, family, illustrations, mourning, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Northern Homefront, women

Negroes Leaving Their Home

April 9, 1864
Unknown Artist
The Newberry Library

Tags: African Americans, children, emancipation, Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom, escape, family, freedom, home, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, slavery

The Harper's Ferry Insurrection [John Brown, Now Under Sentence of Death for Treason and Murder, at Charleston, VA.]

November 19, 1859
Martin M. Lawrence (Photographer)
The Newberry Library

Tags: abolition, battles, Causes of the War, freedom, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, photographs, portraits, prints, slavery, Slavery and Abolition

Kady Brownell in Army Costume

1866
Unknown Artist
The Newberry Library

Tags: family, illustrations, literature, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union, women

The Escaped Slave

July 2, 1864
T. B. Bishop (Photographer)
The Newberry Library

Tags: abolition, African Americans, emancipation, Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom, escape, freedom, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, portraits, prints, slavery, Union

Sumter [The Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, the 12th and 13th of April, 1861]

1862
Unknown Artist
The Newberry Library

Tags: battles, Causes of the War, Confederate, flag, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, secession, The Election of 1860 and Secession, Union

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