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[1] Belle da Costa Greene (November 26, 1879 – May 10, 1950) was an American librarian who managed and developed the personal library of J. P. Morgan. After Morgan died in 1913, Greene continued as librarian for his son, Jack Morgan , and in 1924 was named the first director of the Pierpont Morgan Library .
Bernard Berenson was also involved in a long relationship with Belle da Costa Greene. Samuels (1987) mentions Mary's "reluctant acceptance (at times)" of this relationship. Cole Porter, Linda Lee Thomas, Bernard Berenson, and Howard Sturges in a gondola, 1923
Though they never divorced, Fleet and her daughters changed their name to "Greene" to disassociate themselves from him so that no one would know that they were African American. One of his daughters, Belle da Costa Greene, became the personal librarian to J. P. Morgan and passed for white. [19]
The Cleves family seat is the Schwanenburg, ... (M.945) was purchased by the Pierpont Morgan Library through the Belle da Costa Greene Foundation, ...
Belle da Costa Greene, Morgan's personal librarian, became the first director and continued the aggressive acquisition and expansion of the collections of illuminated manuscripts, authors' original manuscripts, incunabula, prints, and drawings, early printed Bibles, and many examples of fine bookbinding. Today the library is a complex of ...
The cast of Descendants: The Rise of Red is keeping the late Cameron Boyce's legacy alive.. At the D23 convention on August 9, the cast of the Disney+ spinoff, which follows a new group of ...
The couple waited to have children until after Emeline was freed, in 1840 or 1841. Their eldest child, Mary Jane Patterson, was born in 1844. Thus, despite some accounts stating that the family were runaway slaves, they were in fact free when they moved north from Raleigh, North Carolina, to settle in Oberlin, Ohio, an abolitionist town, in 1852.
Peter Livingston would create a backyard ice rink for his daughters when it got cold enough. Above, a woman places flowers at a memorial for victims Friday in Arlington, Va.