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The Shah Jahan Album – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/the-shah-jahan-album

This spectacular album, which contains intimate nature studies, portraits of the royal family and various dignitaries, and fine examples of illuminated folios of calligraphy by renowned calligraphers, offers a glimpse into the courtly life and diverse interests of its patrons.
Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1981.

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Adeline Harris Sears – Quilt, Tumbling Blocks with Signatures pattern – American – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/15391

In 1856, a seventeen-year-old named Adeline Harris (1839-1931) conceived of a unique project: to collect the autographs of the well-known people she most esteemed. This, in itself, was not unusual; the practice of collecting autographs of famous people was very popular in the middle decades of the nineteenth century
According to the family account and her obituary, her father brought the family to Washington

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