| LC control no. | nr 97033759 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Greene, Belle da Costa |
| Variant(s) | Greener, Belle Marion |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1879-11-26 |
| Death date | 1950-05-10 |
| Place of birth | Washington (D.C.) |
| Place of death | New York (N.Y.) |
| Affiliation | Teachers College (New York, N.Y.) Mediaeval Academy of America Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) College Art Association of America Library of Congress Pierpont Morgan Library |
| Profession or occupation | Librarians Museum curators Arts administrators |
| Found in | The first quarter century of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1949: t.p. (Belle da Costa Greene) LC in RLIN, 09/22/97 (hdg.: Greene, Belle da Costa) Studies in art and literature for Belle da Costa Greene, 1954: p. ix (d. May 10, 1950) Morgan : American financier, 1999: p. 512 (Belle da Costa Greene; Belle Marion Greener; b. Washington, D.C., Nov. 26, 1879; daughter of Genevieve Fleet and Richard Theodore Greener, the first black man to graduate from Harvard) New York Times, May 12, 1950: p. 27 (Belle D. Greene; d. in New York City; librarian in charge of J. Pierpont Morgan's library from 1905 until 1924; director of the Pierpont Morgan Library from 1924 until 1948; retired Dec. 1, 1948) African American National Biography, accessed December 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Greene, Belle da Costa; Belle Marion Greener; librarian, art museum curator/ administrator, manuscript collector, art collector, antiques collector; born in 1879 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States; attended Teachers College in New York City; was librarian in training at the Princeton University Library; J. Pierpont Morgan hired her as his private librarian (1905) to organize existing collection (1905-1908); was appointed director of Pierpont Morgan Library (1924-1948); the library took on a new orientation dedicated to scholarship; after World War I she was one of the first women accepted as a fellow of the Mediaeval Academy of America, a fellow in perpetuity of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; was elected to the board of the College Art Association and the Library Advisory Council of the Library of Congress; died 1950 in New York, New York, United States) |
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