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Author Ardizzone, Heidi.

Title An illuminated life : Belle da Costa Greene's journey from prejudice to privilege / Heidi Ardizzone.

Publication Info. New York : W. W. Norton & Co., [2007]
©2007
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Location Call No. Status
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography  B GREENE    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  B-GREENE, B.    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 580 pages 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Raised expectations -- Gilded dreams in New York -- Princeton : early influences -- Belle Greene, girl librarian -- A turn in the road -- The whirl in which I live -- Bella Italia -- Hiding in the light -- A modern woman -- Crossroads -- Battlefields -- Lady directress -- A woman of a certain age -- Shining through the darkness.
Subject Greene, Belle da Costa.
African American librarians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Women library administrators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Pierpont Morgan Library -- History.
Manuscripts -- Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959 -- Friends and associates.
Passing (Identity) -- United States -- Case studies.
New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
ISBN 9780393051049
0393051048
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