Belle da Costa Greene (1879-1950) was one of the most prominent librarians in American history. She ran the Morgan Library for forty-three years—nineteen as the private librarian of J. Pierpont Morgan and later his son, Jack, and twenty-four as the inaugural director of the Pierpont Morgan Library (now the Morgan Library & Museum).. While Belle was still in her teens, Genevieve and the children added "da Costa" to their surname and passed as a white family of Portuguese descent. Greene and Junius S. Morgan II, Morgan's nephew and advisor on Library matters, met at the Princeton University Library, where Junius was a librarian and Greene likely was a cataloger. In.
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A Black activist's daughter became an It Girl on the other side of segregation. by Sarah Richardson 5/3/2019. Belle Da Costa Greene was the olive-skinned daughter of African-American academic Richard Greener. By the time she started working for J.P. Morgan, she had dropped the "R' from her surname and invented a Portuguese heritage.. Terra-cotta bust of Belle da Costa Greene by Jo Davidson (1883-1952), on view in the East Room of J. Pierpont Morgan's Library in 2018 (photo by Graham S. Haber, courtesy the Morgan Library.
