The first quarter century of the Pierpont Morgan Library; a retrospective exhibition in honor of Belle da Costa Greene. With a tribute to the library and its first director by Lawrence C. Wroth. New York, April 5 through July 23, 1949.

Main entry:

Pierpont Morgan Library.

Title & Author:

Publication:

[New York], [1949]

Description:

67 pages [49] plates (including facsimiles, some color) 27 cm

Summary:

Belle 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.

Subject:

Greene, Belle da Costa.
Rare books New York (State) New York Bibliography Exhibitions.
Livres rares New York (État) New York Livres Expositions.
Rare books
New York (State) New York

Form/genre:

Bibliographies
Exhibition catalogs
Insertions (Provenance) NNC

Added entries:

Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970.
Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 98916
Call No.: ID:85-B15170
Status: Available

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