Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy
By Belle da Costa Greene, Erica Ciallela (Editor), Philip S. Palmer (Editor), Colin B. Bailey (Foreword by), Philip S. Palmer (Introduction), Julia S. Charles-Linen (Text by), Daria Rose Foner (Text by), Juliana Amorim Goskes (Text by), Anne-Marie Eze (Text by), Araceli Bremauntz-Enriquez (Text by), Deborah Parker (Text by), Deborah Willi (Text by), Gail Levin (Text by), Jiemi Gao (Text by), Rhonda Evans (Text by), Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty (Afterword)
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By Belle da Costa Greene, Erica Ciallela (Editor), Philip S. Palmer (Editor), Colin B. Bailey (Foreword by), Philip S. Palmer (Introduction), Julia S. Charles-Linen (Text by), Daria Rose Foner (Text by), Juliana Amorim Goskes (Text by), Anne-Marie Eze (Text by), Araceli Bremauntz-Enriquez (Text by), Deborah Parker (Text by), Deborah Willi (Text by), Gail Levin (Text by), Jiemi Gao (Text by), Rhonda Evans (Text by), Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty (Afterword)
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The incredible story of the first director of the Morgan Library: a visionary Black woman who walked confidently in an early 20th-century man's world of wealth and privilege
Published with Morgan Library & Museum.
When J.P. Morgan's personal library opened as a public institution in 1924, the choice for its first director was an obvious one: Belle da Costa Greene (1879-1950). Not only had she organized and cataloged the collection, she had significantly expanded its holdings and displayed it...































