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

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

1861
Currier and Ives
Chicago History Museum

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

1861
Frederic Edwin Church
Terra Foundation for American Art

Tags: Causes of the War, flag, landscapes, paintings, The Election of 1860 and Secession, Union

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

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