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

Lincoln Portrait

1859
Samuel Fassett
The Newberry Library

Tags: Chicago, Illinois, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, photographs, politics, portraits

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

1860
Cornelia Adele Fassett
Chicago Public Library

Tags: charity, Chicago, Illinois, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, paintings, portraits, Union

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 Chicago Zouaves Cadet Drill Team at Utica

c. 1860
J. Graff
Chicago History Museum

Tags: camp life, Chicago, flag, Illinois, paintings, soldiers, The Northern Homefront, Union

Stephen Arnold Douglas

c. 1861
Louis O. Lussier
Chicago History Museum

Tags: Causes of the War, Chicago, Illinois, paintings, politics, portraits, Union, Westward Expansion

Camp Douglas

1864
Private Albert E. Myers
Chicago History Museum

Tags: camp life, Chicago, Confederate, flag, home, Illinois, paintings, prison, soldiers, The Northern Homefront, 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

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

John Jones

c. 1865
Aaron E. Darling
Chicago History Museum

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

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

Main Building of the Great North Western Sanitary Fair, Chicago

1865
Louis Kurz, Lithographer: Baker & Co.
Chicago History Museum

Tags: charity, Chicago, children, city, family, flag, health, Illinois, prints, soldiers, The Northern Homefront, Union

Funeral procession outside Cook County Court House, May 1, 1865

1865
Unknown Artist
Chicago History Museum

Tags: assassination, Chicago, city, Illinois, Lincoln, Lincoln's funeral, mourning, photographs, post-war, Union

Michigan Avenue from the Lake

1866
Louis Kurz and the Chicago Lithographing Company
Chicago History Museum

Tags: Chicago, city, Illinois, post-war, prints, The Northern Homefront

Tremont House