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PHILIP: Belle Greene made a name for herself working at the Morgan, but she led a fascinating life outside of the Library. She had a wide social circle in New York, often dining out with friends and ...
PHILIP: Belle Greene wrote her earliest surviving letter just before starting boarding school at the Northfield Seminary for Young Ladies in 1896. Here she writes to Evelyn S. Hall of Northfield in ...
ERICA: The painter Archibald Motley Jr., like so many artists during the Harlem Renaissance, wanted to create images that highlighted the fullness of the Black experience while drawing attention to ...
PHILIP: To honor her retirement and celebrate an exceptional career, the Morgan mounted an exhibition of Belle Greene’s best acquisitions in 1949. A New York Times review remarked not only on the ...