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
Benjamin Brayton Knight and Robert Knight with a loan that enabled them to found "B.
