Dr. Kurt Schlichting, Professor Emeritus of the Sociology and Anthropology Department at Fairfield University, will present a lecture titled, The City Comes of Age: NYC in the Gilded Age. The lecture will be on Wednesday, September 11th at 5 p.m. in the Barone Campus Center in the Dogwood Room. 

This lecture is presented in conjunction with Hildreth Meière: The Art of Commerce located in the museum’s Bellarmine Hall Galleries and is on view through September 21, 2019.

Image: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library, Greetings from New-York, 1909. Halftone photomechanical print. Picture courtesy The New York Public Library Digital Collections