The First Quarter Century of the Pierpont Morgan Library: A Retrospective Exhibition in Honor of Belle Da Costa GreeneBelle Greene (1879-1950) served as personal librarian, 1905-1924, to J.P. Morgan and later as director of the Pierpont Morgan Library, from 1924 until her retirement in 1948; she was daughter of Richard Greener, the first African American man to graduate from Harvard, and a former member of the University of South Carolina faculty. |
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A TRIBUTE TO THE LIBRARY AND | 9 |
BINDINGS 7596 | 40 |
EARLY PRINTED BOOKS 122204 | 47 |
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