{"id":63041,"date":"2022-02-13T04:25:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T04:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63041"},"modified":"2022-02-13T04:26:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T04:26:02","slug":"belle-de-costa-greene-library-director-advocate-and-rare-books-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63041","title":{"rendered":"Belle de Costa Greene: Library Director, Advocate, and Rare Books Expert."},"content":{"rendered":"

Belle de Costa Greene: Library Director, Advocate, and Rare Books Expert.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Headlines & Heroes: Newspapers, Comics, & More Fine Print<\/a>
\nLibrary of Congress<\/a>
\nWashington, D.C.
\n2022-02-08<\/p>\n

Joanna Colclough<\/strong><\/a>, Reference Librarian
\nSerial and Government Publications Division<\/p>\n

<\/a>
Belle de Costa Greene<\/a>, Oct. 1, 1929. Photograph by Bain News Service. George Grantham Bain Collection<\/a>, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 1999, biographer Jean Strouse<\/a> published her work on J. P. Morgan<\/a>, railroad magnate<\/a>, financier, and New York<\/a> millionaire of the late 1800s. Of course, Belle de Costa Greene<\/a> is featured in the book \u2013 she worked closely with Morgan for the last 8 years of his life as his personal librarian, managing his private art and rare book collection. Greene\u2019s name was not unknown to history. The first half of the 20th century saw Greene rise as a top expert in the rare book world as librarian and first director of the Morgan Library and Museum<\/a>. But Strouse discovered something new about Greene that presented Greene in whole new light. In an article for The New Yorker<\/em><\/a> (March 29, 1999, p. 66-79), Strouse tells how she located Greene\u2019s birth certificate in Washington, D.C.<\/a> which was marked with a C for \u201ccolored.\u201d<\/p>\n

Greene passed as white<\/a> for her entire professional life. This is a fact both surprising and not \u2013 surprising that such a secret could be so well-kept and not surprising considering the prejudice of society…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Belle de Costa Greene: Library Director, Advocate, and Rare Books Expert. Headlines & Heroes: Newspapers, Comics, & More Fine Print Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 2022-02-08 Joanna Colclough, Reference Librarian Serial and Government Publications Division Belle de Costa Greene, Oct. 1, 1929. Photograph by Bain News Service. George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,8,6462,20,25],"tags":[32992,31643,32990,1429,32991,31642,5584,31646,32993,2711,596],"class_list":["post-63041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","category-women","tag-belle-de-costa-greene","tag-belle-marion-greener","tag-headlines-heroes","tag-j-p-morgan","tag-joanna-colclough","tag-john-pierpont-morgan","tag-library-of-congress","tag-morgan-library","tag-morgan-library-and-museum","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63044,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63041\/revisions\/63044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}