In the old 57th Street Art Colony
Beman, Roff, 1891-1940 (artist)View Full Item in Chicago History MuseumOil on canvas.
Lost cause : Lee waiting for Grant
Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902 (artist)View Full Item in Chicago History MuseumOil on canvas. No apparent signature.
The peace makers
Healy, G. P. A. (George Peter Alexander), 1813-1894 (artist)View Full Item in Chicago History MuseumOil paint applied over a chrome lithograph print. The paper is lined to a hard bord panel.
Portrait of Ne-Sa-Au-Quot, or the Bear in the Fork of the Tree
King, Charles Bird, 1785-1862 (artist)View Full Item in Chicago History MuseumOil on wood. Full color oil painting on wood is of a Native American man with a blue and black hazy background.
Ship Alexander McDougall
Needham, James Bolivar, 1850-1931 (artist)View Full Item in Chicago History MuseumOil on canvas on board.
Caricature of Charlotte Mignon Crabtree
Wust, Theodore L., 1835- (artist)View Full Item in Chicago History MuseumOil on canvas.
B. F. Chase Sign Co., 1849-1904
Arnold, James R. (artist)View Full Item in Chicago History MuseumOil on canvas.
Mrs. Catharine O'Leary milking Daisy
Rockwell, Norman, 1894-1978 (artist)View Full Item in Chicago History MuseumThis oil painting depicts cow being milked by a woman seated on a stool with an oil lamp on the floor. Bottom right corner of the canvas is signed.
Memories of the Chicago Fire of 1871
Lemos, Julia, ca.1842-1923 (artist)View Full Item in Chicago History MuseumOil painting on canvas: depicts crowded street flanked by burning buildings, top half engulfed in fire and smoke. Many small, dark figures, some running and some on horseback or in carriages, are gath…
Death of E. E. Ellsworth
Chappel, Alonzo, 1828-1887 (artist)View Full Item in Chicago History MuseumOil on canvas.
Steamer at dock
Needham, James Bolivar, 1850-1931 (artist)View Full Item in Chicago History MuseumOil on canvas on board.
Erecting the Wabash Ave. bridge
Chase, Richard A., 1892-1985 (artist)View Full Item in Chicago History MuseumOil on masonite.
S.S. Seneca
Needham, James Bolivar, 1850-1931 (artist)View Full Item in Chicago History MuseumOil on canvas on board.
Painting of Indian Treaty of Greenville, 1795
View Full Item in Chicago History MuseumOil on canvas depiction of the Treaty of Greenville. The principal figures believed to be represented therein are General Anthony Wayne, the officer, front view, with epaulets on shoulders, standing n…
Painting of the second Fort Dearborn
Brackett, E. M., Mrs. after Albert C. Brackett, 1827-1896 (artist)View Full Item in Chicago History MuseumOil on canvas. Painting is of Fort Dearborn. Green grass plains in the foreground, Fort Dearborn in the center, Lake Michigan in the background. Depicts the date 1849.
Oil painting titled the Birth of the Atomic Age
Sheahan, Gary, b. 1920 (artist)View Full Item in Chicago History MuseumOil painting on masonite (wooden) board. Depicts a dark basement room with a group of men in suits surrounding two desks on left. On right is large wooden structure filled with black bricks. Three men…
East South Water Street
Chase, Richard A., 1892-1985 (artist)View Full Item in Chicago History MuseumOil on masonite.
Portrait of Elmer Tyler
Peck, Sheldon, 1797-1868, Attributed to (artist)View Full Item in Chicago History MuseumOil painting. Oil on canvas.
Dock scene
Needham, James Bolivar, 1850-1931 (artist)View Full Item in Chicago History MuseumOil on canvas on board.
Camp Douglas, Chicago. 1862-1865
Myers, Albert E. (artist)View Full Item in Chicago History MuseumOil on canvas, mounted on beaver board.