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[
 {
  "code": "si",
  "slug": "scientists-inventors",
  "title": "Scientists & Inventors",
  "blurb": "The minds who remade the modern world, in their own hand.",
  "met_query": "scientific instrument astrolabe",
  "roster": [
   "Thomas Edison",
   "Nikola Tesla",
   "Albert Einstein",
   "Isaac Newton",
   "Charles Darwin",
   "Louis Pasteur",
   "Marie Curie",
   "Michael Faraday",
   "Benjamin Franklin",
   "Alessandro Volta",
   "Alexander Graham Bell",
   "Samuel Morse",
   "Galileo Galilei",
   "George Washington Carver"
  ]
 },
 {
  "code": "co",
  "slug": "composers",
  "title": "Great Composers",
  "blurb": "The signatures behind the symphonies — Bach to Mahler.",
  "met_query": "musical instrument violin",
  "roster": [
   "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart",
   "Ludwig van Beethoven",
   "Johann Sebastian Bach",
   "Frederic Chopin",
   "Richard Wagner",
   "Giuseppe Verdi",
   "Johannes Brahms",
   "Franz Liszt",
   "Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky",
   "George Frideric Handel",
   "Joseph Haydn",
   "Franz Schubert",
   "Gustav Mahler",
   "Claude Debussy"
  ]
 },
 {
  "code": "wr",
  "slug": "writers-novelists",
  "title": "Writers & Novelists",
  "blurb": "The hands that wrote the canon — Austen to Tolstoy.",
  "met_query": "illuminated manuscript book",
  "roster": [
   "Charles Dickens",
   "Mark Twain",
   "Leo Tolstoy",
   "Fyodor Dostoevsky",
   "Victor Hugo",
   "Alexandre Dumas",
   "Jane Austen",
   "Edgar Allan Poe",
   "Nathaniel Hawthorne",
   "Herman Melville",
   "Oscar Wilde",
   "Arthur Conan Doyle",
   "Robert Louis Stevenson",
   "Jules Verne"
  ]
 },
 {
  "code": "po",
  "slug": "poets",
  "title": "The Poets",
  "blurb": "Romantics and visionaries — every verse signed.",
  "met_query": "Romantic landscape painting",
  "roster": [
   "William Wordsworth",
   "Lord Byron",
   "John Keats",
   "Percy Bysshe Shelley",
   "Walt Whitman",
   "Alfred Tennyson",
   "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow",
   "Samuel Taylor Coleridge",
   "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe",
   "Robert Burns",
   "William Blake",
   "Elizabeth Barrett Browning",
   "William Butler Yeats"
  ]
 },
 {
  "code": "ph",
  "slug": "philosophers",
  "title": "Philosophers",
  "blurb": "The architects of thought — Descartes to Nietzsche.",
  "met_query": "ancient Greek bust marble",
  "roster": [
   "Immanuel Kant",
   "Voltaire",
   "Jean-Jacques Rousseau",
   "Friedrich Nietzsche",
   "David Hume",
   "John Locke",
   "Rene Descartes",
   "Arthur Schopenhauer",
   "John Stuart Mill",
   "Francis Bacon",
   "Baruch Spinoza",
   "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel"
  ]
 },
 {
  "code": "pa",
  "slug": "painters-artists",
  "title": "Painters & Masters",
  "blurb": "The signatures of the easel — Rembrandt to Van Gogh.",
  "met_query": "old master oil painting",
  "roster": [
   "Rembrandt van Rijn",
   "Peter Paul Rubens",
   "Vincent van Gogh",
   "Claude Monet",
   "Pierre-Auguste Renoir",
   "Paul Cezanne",
   "Edgar Degas",
   "Francisco Goya",
   "Eugene Delacroix",
   "Edouard Manet",
   "Paul Gauguin",
   "J. M. W. Turner",
   "John Singer Sargent"
  ]
 },
 {
  "code": "ex",
  "slug": "explorers-navigators",
  "title": "Explorers & Navigators",
  "blurb": "The hands that charted the world.",
  "met_query": "antique navigation globe map",
  "roster": [
   "Christopher Columbus",
   "Ferdinand Magellan",
   "James Cook",
   "Francis Drake",
   "Amerigo Vespucci",
   "Samuel de Champlain",
   "Hernan Cortes",
   "Meriwether Lewis",
   "William Clark",
   "Henry Hudson",
   "Vasco da Gama"
  ]
 },
 {
  "code": "ge",
  "slug": "generals-commanders",
  "title": "Generals & Commanders",
  "blurb": "The signatures that moved armies.",
  "met_query": "arms and armor sword",
  "roster": [
   "Napoleon Bonaparte",
   "Duke of Wellington",
   "George Washington",
   "Ulysses S. Grant",
   "Robert E. Lee",
   "Horatio Nelson",
   "Giuseppe Garibaldi",
   "Simon Bolivar",
   "Marquis de Lafayette",
   "William Tecumseh Sherman",
   "John J. Pershing"
  ]
 },
 {
  "code": "mo",
  "slug": "monarchs",
  "title": "Monarchs & Royalty",
  "blurb": "Kings and queens — sovereign hands across the centuries.",
  "met_query": "royal crown jewelry portrait",
  "roster": [
   "Henry VIII of England",
   "Elizabeth I of England",
   "Louis XIV of France",
   "Queen Victoria",
   "Catherine the Great",
   "Frederick the Great",
   "Charles I of England",
   "Marie Antoinette",
   "Philip II of Spain",
   "Napoleon Bonaparte"
  ]
 },
 {
  "code": "py",
  "slug": "physicists",
  "title": "Physicists",
  "blurb": "From classical mechanics to the quantum age.",
  "met_query": "scientific instrument brass",
  "roster": [
   "Albert Einstein",
   "Isaac Newton",
   "Niels Bohr",
   "Max Planck",
   "James Clerk Maxwell",
   "Michael Faraday",
   "Marie Curie",
   "Ernest Rutherford",
   "Erwin Schrodinger",
   "Enrico Fermi",
   "Nikola Tesla"
  ]
 },
 {
  "code": "ma",
  "slug": "mathematicians",
  "title": "Mathematicians",
  "blurb": "The signatures behind the theorems.",
  "met_query": "astrolabe geometry instrument",
  "roster": [
   "Carl Friedrich Gauss",
   "Leonhard Euler",
   "Isaac Newton",
   "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz",
   "Blaise Pascal",
   "Pierre-Simon Laplace",
   "Bernhard Riemann",
   "Henri Poincare",
   "David Hilbert",
   "Georg Cantor"
  ]
 },
 {
  "code": "na",
  "slug": "naturalists",
  "title": "Naturalists",
  "blurb": "The observers of the living world.",
  "met_query": "Audubon bird natural history print",
  "roster": [
   "Charles Darwin",
   "John James Audubon",
   "Alexander von Humboldt",
   "Alfred Russel Wallace",
   "Carl Linnaeus",
   "Gregor Mendel",
   "John Muir",
   "Louis Agassiz",
   "Luther Burbank"
  ]
 },
 {
  "code": "as",
  "slug": "astronomers",
  "title": "Astronomers",
  "blurb": "The hands that mapped the heavens.",
  "met_query": "celestial globe astronomy",
  "roster": [
   "Galileo Galilei",
   "Johannes Kepler",
   "Nicolaus Copernicus",
   "Isaac Newton",
   "William Herschel",
   "Edmond Halley",
   "Tycho Brahe",
   "Edwin Hubble",
   "Camille Flammarion"
  ]
 },
 {
  "code": "av",
  "slug": "aviation-pioneers",
  "title": "Aviation Pioneers",
  "blurb": "The first to sign the sky.",
  "met_query": "early aviation flight",
  "roster": [
   "Wilbur Wright",
   "Orville Wright",
   "Charles Lindbergh",
   "Amelia Earhart",
   "Alberto Santos-Dumont",
   "Louis Bleriot",
   "Ferdinand von Zeppelin",
   "Eddie Rickenbacker",
   "Jimmy Doolittle"
  ]
 },
 {
  "code": "ab",
  "slug": "abolitionists",
  "title": "Abolition & Liberty",
  "blurb": "The signatures that helped end slavery.",
  "met_query": "19th century American history",
  "roster": [
   "Frederick Douglass",
   "Abraham Lincoln",
   "Harriet Beecher Stowe",
   "William Lloyd Garrison",
   "John Brown",
   "Sojourner Truth",
   "William Wilberforce",
   "Charles Sumner",
   "Wendell Phillips"
  ]
 },
 {
  "code": "su",
  "slug": "suffragists",
  "title": "Suffragists & Pioneers",
  "blurb": "Women who signed history forward.",
  "met_query": "19th century portrait woman",
  "roster": [
   "Susan B. Anthony",
   "Elizabeth Cady Stanton",
   "Emmeline Pankhurst",
   "Florence Nightingale",
   "Clara Barton",
   "Marie Curie",
   "Helen Keller",
   "Lucretia Mott",
   "Ida B. Wells"
  ]
 },
 {
  "code": "re",
  "slug": "renaissance-masters",
  "title": "Renaissance Masters",
  "blurb": "The hands of the rebirth — Leonardo to Machiavelli.",
  "met_query": "Italian Renaissance drawing",
  "roster": [
   "Leonardo da Vinci",
   "Michelangelo Buonarroti",
   "Galileo Galilei",
   "Albrecht Durer",
   "Niccolo Machiavelli",
   "Desiderius Erasmus",
   "Nicolaus Copernicus",
   "Titian",
   "Raphael"
  ]
 },
 {
  "code": "pl",
  "slug": "playwrights",
  "title": "Playwrights",
  "blurb": "The dramatists, signed and staged.",
  "met_query": "theater mask drama",
  "roster": [
   "William Shakespeare",
   "Moliere",
   "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe",
   "Friedrich Schiller",
   "Henrik Ibsen",
   "Anton Chekhov",
   "Oscar Wilde",
   "George Bernard Shaw",
   "Christopher Marlowe"
  ]
 },
 {
  "code": "ec",
  "slug": "economists",
  "title": "Economists & Thinkers",
  "blurb": "The signatures behind the wealth of nations.",
  "met_query": "18th century engraving portrait",
  "roster": [
   "Adam Smith",
   "Karl Marx",
   "David Ricardo",
   "John Maynard Keynes",
   "Thomas Robert Malthus",
   "John Stuart Mill",
   "Jeremy Bentham",
   "Friedrich Engels"
  ]
 },
 {
  "code": "in",
  "slug": "industrialists",
  "title": "Industrialists & Tycoons",
  "blurb": "The hands that built the Gilded Age.",
  "met_query": "Gilded Age decorative arts",
  "roster": [
   "Andrew Carnegie",
   "John D. Rockefeller",
   "Cornelius Vanderbilt",
   "J. P. Morgan",
   "Henry Ford",
   "Thomas Edison",
   "George Westinghouse",
   "John Jacob Astor"
  ]
 },
 {
  "code": "aa",
  "slug": "american-authors",
  "title": "American Authors",
  "blurb": "The signatures that built American letters — Irving to London.",
  "met_query": "American 19th century painting",
  "roster": [
   "Mark Twain",
   "Edgar Allan Poe",
   "Nathaniel Hawthorne",
   "Herman Melville",
   "Walt Whitman",
   "Ralph Waldo Emerson",
   "Henry David Thoreau",
   "Washington Irving",
   "James Fenimore Cooper",
   "Harriet Beecher Stowe",
   "Jack London",
   "Louisa May Alcott",
   "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
  ]
 },
 {
  "code": "ff",
  "slug": "founding-fathers",
  "title": "Founding Fathers",
  "blurb": "The architects of the American republic.",
  "met_query": "American Federal period portrait",
  "roster": [
   "George Washington",
   "Thomas Jefferson",
   "Benjamin Franklin",
   "John Adams",
   "James Madison",
   "Alexander Hamilton",
   "John Jay",
   "James Monroe",
   "Patrick Henry",
   "Thomas Paine"
  ]
 },
 {
  "code": "pr",
  "slug": "american-presidents",
  "title": "American Presidents",
  "blurb": "Executive signatures across two centuries.",
  "met_query": "American presidential portrait",
  "roster": [
   "George Washington",
   "Thomas Jefferson",
   "Abraham Lincoln",
   "Theodore Roosevelt",
   "Andrew Jackson",
   "Ulysses S. Grant",
   "Woodrow Wilson",
   "Franklin D. Roosevelt",
   "Grover Cleveland",
   "William McKinley"
  ]
 },
 {
  "code": "rv",
  "slug": "revolutionaries",
  "title": "Revolutionaries",
  "blurb": "The hands that overturned the old order.",
  "met_query": "French Revolution print",
  "roster": [
   "Maximilien Robespierre",
   "Georges Danton",
   "Jean-Paul Marat",
   "Simon Bolivar",
   "Jose de San Martin",
   "Giuseppe Garibaldi",
   "Vladimir Lenin",
   "Sun Yat-sen",
   "Lajos Kossuth"
  ]
 },
 {
  "code": "nl",
  "slug": "nobel-laureates",
  "title": "Nobel Laureates",
  "blurb": "Early signatures of the prize.",
  "met_query": "medal portrait engraving",
  "roster": [
   "Marie Curie",
   "Albert Einstein",
   "Theodore Roosevelt",
   "Rudyard Kipling",
   "Ernest Rutherford",
   "Max Planck",
   "Rabindranath Tagore",
   "George Bernard Shaw",
   "Guglielmo Marconi",
   "Ivan Pavlov"
  ]
 },
 {
  "code": "md",
  "slug": "medicine",
  "title": "Medicine & Healers",
  "blurb": "The signatures that conquered disease.",
  "met_query": "medical instrument apothecary",
  "roster": [
   "Louis Pasteur",
   "Joseph Lister",
   "Robert Koch",
   "Edward Jenner",
   "Alexander Fleming",
   "Florence Nightingale",
   "William Harvey",
   "William Osler",
   "Sigmund Freud"
  ]
 },
 {
  "code": "es",
  "slug": "european-statesmen",
  "title": "European Statesmen",
  "blurb": "The hands that steered nations — Talleyrand to Churchill.",
  "met_query": "19th century European portrait",
  "roster": [
   "Otto von Bismarck",
   "William Ewart Gladstone",
   "Benjamin Disraeli",
   "Klemens von Metternich",
   "Winston Churchill",
   "Georges Clemenceau",
   "Camillo Benso di Cavour",
   "Charles Maurice de Talleyrand",
   "Robert Peel",
   "Giuseppe Mazzini",
   "Lord Palmerston",
   "Charles de Gaulle"
  ]
 },
 {
  "code": "mm",
  "slug": "masters-of-the-met",
  "title": "Masters of the MET",
  "blurb": "Echoes of genius. Leonardo, Picasso, Van Gogh—their indelible marks, captured for your wall.",
  "met_query": "palette easel painting",
  "roster": [
   "Leonardo da Vinci",
   "Pablo Picasso",
   "Vincent van Gogh",
   "Michelangelo",
   "Rembrandt",
   "Raphael",
   "Albrecht Dürer",
   "Francisco Goya",
   "Henri Matisse",
   "Katsushika Hokusai",
   "Peter Paul Rubens",
   "Diego Velázquez",
   "Claude Monet",
   "Paul Cézanne"
  ]
 },
 {
  "code": "ng",
  "slug": "national-gallery-masters",
  "title": "National Gallery Masters",
  "blurb": "A lineage of visionaries. Vermeer, El Greco, Pollock—signatures from the National Gallery's heart.",
  "met_query": "landscape painting gilded frame",
  "roster": [
   "Leonardo da Vinci",
   "Rembrandt",
   "Johannes Vermeer",
   "El Greco",
   "Francisco Goya",
   "Eugène Delacroix",
   "Claude Monet",
   "Paul Cézanne",
   "Paul Gauguin",
   "Edvard Munch",
   "Auguste Rodin",
   "Jackson Pollock",
   "Henri Matisse",
   "Pablo Picasso"
  ]
 },
 {
  "code": "sm",
  "slug": "smithsonian-masters",
  "title": "Smithsonian Masters",
  "blurb": "Innovation and artistry converge. Kahlo, Disney, Morse—a Smithsonian legacy in every stroke.",
  "met_query": "american painting portrait",
  "roster": [
   "Walt Disney",
   "Frida Kahlo",
   "Katsushika Hokusai",
   "Sandro Botticelli",
   "Edgar Degas",
   "Édouard Manet",
   "Titian",
   "Mary Cassatt",
   "Samuel Finley Breese Morse",
   "René Magritte",
   "Amedeo Modigliani",
   "Anthony van Dyck",
   "Auguste Rodin",
   "Vincent van Gogh"
  ]
 }
]