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
