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Becoming Belle da Costa Greene

A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters
  • Deborah Parker
2024
Harvard University Press

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Belle da Costa Greene at her desk in the Morgan library.
Book Review

Ambition, Discipline, Nerve

The qualities that enabled Belle da Costa Greene to cross the color line also made her a formidable negotiator and collector for J.P. Morgan’s library.
by Heather O’Donnell via New York Review of Books on April 24, 2025
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