Lecture
Leading Ladies of Chicago’s Columbian Exposition: Celebrating 125 Years - Sold Out
Tuesday, June 5 6 – 7:30 p.m. The program is now sold out.
Although the right to vote was still over 20 years away, the leading ladies of Chicago’s Gilded Age began exerting their power as leaders of social society and cultural tastemakers. Historian Sally Kalmbach will discuss how these women also played an integral leadership role in creating the World’s Fair and cultivating Chicago’s successful future.
Sally Sexton Kalmbach is a fourth generation Chicagoan whose family founded a Chicago-based coffee and tea company in the early 1880s, at the same time Potter Palmer was developing the Gold Coast. She has taught classes in Chicago history at the Newberry Library and gives speeches and tours on topics including Chicago’s Gold Coast, the Columbian Exposition of 1893, and prominent families of Chicago’s Gilded Age.
This program is presented in partnership with Art Design Chicago, a spirited celebration of the unique and vital role Chicago plays as America’s crossroads of art and design, creativity and commerce. To learn more, visit artdesignchicago.org.
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