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208:. She was divorced in 1970 and remained with the Historical Society until her dismissal a dozen years later. Black filed complaints with state and federal agencies alleging sex and age discrimination and the society settled. She was awarded back pay, including vacation time, and a full pension. She died of 403: 398: 373: 368: 224:
Mary Black published five books in her career and contributed to "a number of publications for the New-York Historical Society on various topics, including
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Richard H. Saunders; Ellen Gross Miles; National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) (1987).
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from 1964 to 1969 and then became curator of painting, sculpture, and decorative arts for the
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from 1958 to 1960, and then director and curator in 1960–63. Black was the director of the
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American Women Historians, 1700s–1990s: A Biographical Dictionary
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Mary Black (disambiguation)
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
New York
University of North Carolina
B.A.
George Washington University
M.A.
art historian
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
B.A.
University of North Carolina
United States Navy
WAVES
lieutenant, junior grade
M.A.
George Washington University
research assistant
Colonial Williamsburg
Williamsburg, Virginia
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection
curator
American Folk Art Museum
New-York Historical Society
New York City
cancer
Germantown, New York
Edward Hicks
Erastus Salisbury Field
Federal furniture
Belmont Park

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