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

Harriet Tubman

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

John Brown

1939
John Steuart Curry
Terra Foundation for American Art

Tags: abolition, African Americans, Causes of the War, commemorations, freedom, portraits, post-war, prints, Slavery and Abolition, Westward Expansion

Ships Unloading, New York

1868
Samuel Colman, Jr.
Terra Foundation for American Art

Tags: Causes of the War, city, cotton, paintings, Slavery and Abolition

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

Antislavery Picnic at Weymouth Landing, Massachusetts

1845
Susan Torrey Merritt
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: abolition, African Americans, Causes of the War, children, family, flag, freedom, genre scenes, landscapes, paintings, politics, pre-war, Slavery and Abolition, women

Cotton Pressing in Louisiana

April 12, 1856
A. Hill
Chicago History Museum

Tags: African Americans, Causes of the War, cotton, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, pre-war, prints, slavery, Slavery and Abolition

View of the Famous Levee of New Orleans

1860
Unknown Artist
Chicago History Museum

Tags: Causes of the War, city, Confederate, cotton, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, slavery, Slavery and Abolition

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

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

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 Cotton Kingdom

1863
Edward Atkinson
The Newberry Library

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

The Auction Sale