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

Women of the War—Famous Nurses of Union Soldiers

1889
Samuel Hollyer
The Newberry Library

Tags: health, illustrations, literature, portraits, post-war, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union, women

Mary Richardson Jones

c. 1865
Aaron E. Darling
Chicago History Museum

Tags: abolition, African Americans, Causes of the War, Chicago, freedom, Illinois, paintings, portraits, Slavery and Abolition, women

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

Tremont House

1866
Louis Kurz and the Chicago Lithographing Company
Chicago History Museum

Tags: Chicago, children, city, family, flag, home, Illinois, politics, post-war, prints, The Northern Homefront, women

The Last Hours of Abraham Lincoln

1868
Alonzo Chappel
Chicago History Museum

Tags: assassination, death, family, Lincoln portraits, mourning, paintings, post-war, Remembering the War, soldiers, Union, women

Abraham Lincoln and Family

c. 1862
Edward Herline, Lithographer: Loux & Co., Philadelphia
Chicago History Museum

Tags: children, family, home, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, prints, soldiers, Union, women

The Assassination of President Lincoln

1865
Currier and Ives
Chicago History Museum

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

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 Fugitives are Safe in a Free Land

1852
Hammatt Billings
The Newberry Library

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

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

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

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

Kady Brownell in Army Costume

1866
Unknown Artist
The Newberry Library

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

The Bereaved Family