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

54th Massachusetts Volunteers

c. 1963
Jennie Scott Washington
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: African Americans, battles, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, Confederate, death, emancipation, Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom, flag, freedom, paintings, post-war, soldiers, Union

1963
Ramon B. Price
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: African Americans, battles, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, death, emancipation, Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom, flag, freedom, paintings, post-war, soldiers, Union

1963
Sophie Wessel
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: African Americans, camp life, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, contrabands, emancipation, Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom, escape, freedom, Illinois, paintings, post-war, slavery, soldiers, Union, women

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

1963
Gus Nall
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: African Americans, children, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, Confederate, emancipation, family, freedom, Illinois, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, paintings, Remembering the War, slavery, soldiers, Union, women

1940
Martyl (Suzanne Schweig Langsdorf)
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: African Americans, battles, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, death, emancipation, paintings, post-war, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

c. 1963
R. Furan
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: abolition, African Americans, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom, escape, freedom, paintings, portraits, post-war, slavery, women

1964
Shirley Firestone
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: African Americans, Causes of the War, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, escape, freedom, paintings, portraits, post-war, slavery, Slavery and Abolition, women

1963
William Sylvester Carter
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: Causes of the War, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, flag, Illinois, Lincoln, paintings, politics, portraits, post-war, slavery, Westward Expansion