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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's death in 1913, Greene continued as librarian for his son, Jack Morgan, and in 1924 was named the first director of the Pierpont Morgan Library.
The Morgan Library & Museum (originally known as the Pierpont Morgan Library; colloquially the Morgan) is a museum and research library at 225 Madison Avenue in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S. Completed in 1906 as the private library of the banker J. P. Morgan, the institution has more than 350,000 objects.
The Personal Librarian tells of the lifework of Belle da Costa Greene, the personal librarian to J. P. Morgan, as well as the first director of the Morgan Library & Museum. The book, co-written by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray , was published June 2021 by Berkley Books .
His son, J. P. Morgan Jr., made the Pierpont Morgan Library a public institution in 1924 as a memorial to his father, and appointed Belle da Costa Greene, his father's private librarian, as its first director.
Where was the board of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) when risk management might have stopped the "London Whale" problem and other investment decisions the bank probably should not have made?
Ashley Tan got a job at JP Morgan in Singapore after graduating from university. Tan felt her role was unfulfilling and a waste of her life, so she quit to travel. Traveling has shifted Tan's ...
A Senate subcommittee has produced a 300 or so page document that says that J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) manipulated information about huge losses in its London trading operations and that ...
John Pierpont Morgan Jr, nicknamed Jack, was born on September 7, 1867, in Irvington, New York, to J. P. Morgan and Frances Louisa Tracy. He graduated from St. Paul's School, and later in 1886 from Harvard College, where he was a member of the Delphic Club, formerly known as the Delta Phi.