Belle da Costa Greene and the Women of the Morgan

Tebbs & Knell, New York
The North Room of the Pierpont Morgan Library, [1923–ca. 1935]
TK Gelatin silver print 
Archives of the Morgan Library & Museum; ARC 1600.2

Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950)
Signed paychecks to Ada Thurston, Meta Harrsen, and herself, 1916–22
Archives of the Morgan Library & Museum

Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950)
Typed list of staff and their duties, 1943
Archives of the Morgan Library & Museum

Walter Sanders (1897–1985)
Reading Room of the Pierpont Morgan Library, ca. 1950
Gelatin silver print
Archives of the Morgan Library & Museum; ARC 1916

Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950)
Letter to Helen Crowe, 1 April 1925
Letter to Meta Harrsen, 21 October 1922
Archives of the Morgan Library & Museum

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669)
A Scholar in His Study (‘Faust’), ca. 1652
Etching, engraving, and drypoint
The Morgan Library & Museum, purchased from Gilhofer & Ranschburg via Schab, 2 September 1929; RVR 360

Violet Burnie
Note to Belle da Costa Greene, 1929
Archives of the Morgan Library & Museum

Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950)
Retained copy of letter to Sarah Wharton Jones Walters of the Walters Art Gallery, 12 December 1934
Archives of the Morgan Library & Museum

Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950)
Note to Meta Harrsen, 23 February 1945
Letter to Jane Nichols, 20 April 1945
Archives of the Morgan Library & Museum

Bonifacio Bembo
The Popess, from “Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards”
Italy, Milan, ca. 1450–80
Painting, on vellum
The Morgan Library & Museum, purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1911; MS M.630.3

Bonifacio Bembo
Queen of Cups, from “Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards”
Italy, Milan, ca. 1450–80
Painting, on vellum
The Morgan Library & Museum, purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1911; MS M.630.16

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
Last Poems
Pages from the autograph manuscript, ca. 1860
The Morgan Library & Museum, purchased in 1945; MA 1211

Paul Helleu (1859–1927)
Portrait of Belle da Costa Greene [reproduction], 1913
Archives of the Morgan Library & Museum; ARC 3197

Violet Napier
Autograph note, 1977
Archives of the Morgan Library & Museum; ARC 3197.1

Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950)
Letter with envelope to Marguerite Duprez Lahey, 16 June 1927
Retained copy of letter to Ada Thurston, 19 March 1943
Archives of the Morgan Library & Museum

Tebbs & Knell, New York
Reading Room of the Pierpont Morgan Library, [1923–ca. 1935]
TK Gelatin silver print
Archives of the Morgan Library & Museum; ARC 1914

Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950)
Letter to Pierpont Morgan Library staff, 5 April 1949
Archives of the Morgan Library & Museum