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

Abraham Lincoln

1860
Cornelia Adele Fassett
Chicago Public Library

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

Campaign ribbon, A. Lincoln

1860
John Chester Buttre
Chicago Public Library

Tags: Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, photographs, politics, prints

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

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

The Railsplitter

1860
Unknown Artist
Chicago History Museum

Tags: Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, paintings, politics, portraits, pre-war

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

Portrait of John F. P. Robie

c. 1861
Unknown Artist
Chicago History Museum

Tags: children, photographs, portraits, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

Filling Cartridges at the United States Arsenal at Watertown, Massachusetts

1861
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: genre scenes, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, The Northern Homefront, Union, women

The Songs of the War

1861
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: African Americans, camp life, children, Confederate, contrabands, generals, home, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor

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

Stephen Arnold Douglas

c. 1861
Louis O. Lussier
Chicago History Museum

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

Our Banner in the Sky

1861
Frederic Edwin Church
Terra Foundation for American Art

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

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

News from the War

1862
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: camp life, death, family, genre scenes, health, home, illustrations, mourning, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Northern Homefront

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