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All That's Interesting on MSNInside The Life Of Belle Da Costa Greene, The Celebrated Black Librarian Who Passed For WhiteWhen financier J.P. Morgan sought a librarian for his massive collection of books, his relative recommended a young woman who ...
The last time a J.P. Morgan helped solve an American banking crisis, it was the dude - John Pierpont Morgan himself - rather than the institution that now bears his name who had come to the rescue ...
John Pierpont Morgan was by now 70 years old, semi-retired, long a Wall Street legend founder of J.P. Morgan & Co., underwriter of U.S. Steel, patron of one of the world’s largest private art ...
The museum at the J. Pierpont Morgan mansion uses paintings, books and a clump of coins to examine the ubiquitous role of money through the ages.
J. Pierpont Morgan was among the passengers on the White Star Liner Teutonic, which reached port just before noon yesterday. He was accompanied by Mrs. J.B. Morgan and Miss Ursula and two servants.
J.P. Morgan sat for two minutes; one of the resulting portraits defined his reputation. Edward Steichen “No price is too great,” John Pierpont Morgan once declared, “for a work of ...
When SVB faltered, some venture capitalists did the opposite of pitch in, instead urging companies to yank funds. They could take a lesson from an original capitalist great, Anita Ramaswamy writes.
A look into how J.P. Morgan built his $49 billion fortune. The famous banker and financier John Pierpont Morgan died in 1913 while in Italy; he was 75 years old. At the time of his death, Morgan's ...
There she met a cousin of J. Pierpont Morgan, who at the time was looking for someone to organize his growing collection. "The interview went amazingly, as we can all imagine," Ciallela said.
This exhibition features twenty small-scale ancient bronze sculptures from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, all purchased by the American financier J. Pierpont Morgan between 1904 and 1916 and ...
The American industrialist and financier John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) was a serious collector of objects, books, and ephemera for most of his life, and his avidity and the diversity of the ...
John Pierpont Morgan died, in the grandest suite of Rome’s Grand Hotel, just days shy of his 76th birthday, on March 31, 1913, leaving money, art, real estate, yachts and other assets valued at ...
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