How Belle da Costa Greene became curator of The Morgan Library

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ธ.ค. 2024

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  • @simeondeskins9539
    @simeondeskins9539 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    a Relative...I will be at the kickoff to the Exhibit this week with my sister, a niece, and a some cousins...she passed and was a curator for the wealthiest guy in the world...I am learning so much about a relative these last few months...amazing story...Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy!!!

  • @suffragettesoul2687
    @suffragettesoul2687 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    The Personal Librarian - where I learned about her - is an astonishing book!
    A WOW!

    • @dionmillington7305
      @dionmillington7305 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I read "Belle Greene" by Alexandra Lapierre and I couldn't but it down! I will read The personal librarian next!

  • @60asteroid
    @60asteroid 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Read "The Personal Librarian." When I saw her photograph, I thought how could she have "passed"? I'm sure somebody knew before 1999; simply secrets kept

  • @ursulabean3179
    @ursulabean3179 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I cannot believe she’s not famous! The book was brilliant.

    • @dionmillington7305
      @dionmillington7305 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I read a book about her, may I ask which one did you read?

    • @ursulabean3179
      @ursulabean3179 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dionmillington7305 in book club we read and had a great discussion about
      Personal Librarian…… written by two brilliant women……

    • @lettiegrant9447
      @lettiegrant9447 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You should know why.😐

  • @jaiyabyrd4177
    @jaiyabyrd4177 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +21

    You can clearly see that Belle is not white.
    But I'm glad she got paid well

  • @sherrithorne1415
    @sherrithorne1415 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I worked at the Pierpont Morgan Library - as it then was - from 1987-1989, in their shop. I knew her story as a result of a trustee telling one of the guards, who told me and another co-worker. I suspect that it was the same gentleman who told the author of the biography about J.P. Morgan, Jean Strouse thirty years later; but I knew in 1987/88. I am looking forward to seeing this exhibition!

  • @brahmabkitty03
    @brahmabkitty03 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    This is awesome! She deserves all her flowers!

  • @wendyqallab6906
    @wendyqallab6906 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    What a great woman!

  • @joylynne8
    @joylynne8 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    It is not an absolute that if one is smart and persistent that one will succeed, no matter what one's race is.

  • @mikkibarker8671
    @mikkibarker8671 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    They knew. In those days, t hey always knew. You saw the Great Gatsby... Passing...

  • @christopherfunnyboybrown3271
    @christopherfunnyboybrown3271 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    $833 paycheck for 1800's????😮😮😮 I know people who don't make that much in 2024

  • @scroogemcduckrich9705
    @scroogemcduckrich9705 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    2:52 he was having an affair with her. her left her a fortune

  • @allenjune3
    @allenjune3 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Not lost , they just refuse to talk about, we don't matter, or they don't want people to know.

    • @ursulabean3179
      @ursulabean3179 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@allenjune3 this country disappoints me in it’s terrible race relations………. It’ll never learn cos we have too many bigots…..
      who hate the fact that non Whites are just the same ……..

  • @aishajefferson5420
    @aishajefferson5420 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    People see what they want to see. It’s very obvious this woman was of African descent.

    • @curlzwheelzcameraz
      @curlzwheelzcameraz 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      it was obvious, were there no eyeglasses available to the masses

    • @lettiegrant9447
      @lettiegrant9447 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Back then they thought if you were not dark skinned you were not black. Just like today when people ask "Are you black"?

  • @EmelyPhan
    @EmelyPhan 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I saw a book about her at a TJX store in Canada

  • @marytheresejacksonlutz2533
    @marytheresejacksonlutz2533 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What years was Belle at Princeton? My grandmother was a secretary in the math department at Princeton in 30’s.

  • @RPTest-pe2im
    @RPTest-pe2im วันที่ผ่านมา

    Just ran the numbers $833 in 1922 is worth $15,550 in 2024 dollars... I think that was a weekly paycheck, but even if it was monthly, it's still a tidy sum. Nice!!!

  • @IkedaIkeda999
    @IkedaIkeda999 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    👩🏾‍🏫🧑🏽‍🏫👩🏾‍💻🧑🏽‍💻

  • @IkedaIkeda999
    @IkedaIkeda999 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    👸🏾🤴🏽🧕🏾👳🏽

  • @s.rosesmith6525
    @s.rosesmith6525 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Tell that to 45 and his MAGAs......

  • @juanettefoster6147
    @juanettefoster6147 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    JP was not the only Maga with Black mistress

  • @cocoaorange1
    @cocoaorange1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think there is a fiction book about her.