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"code": "o",
"slug": "oldest-signatures",
"title": "Oldest Signatures in History",
"blurb": "From the earliest cuneiform scribal marks (c. 3100 BCE) to the Renaissance — the oldest signatures known, paired with public-domain artifacts from The Met.",
"sigs": 18
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{
"code": "d",
"slug": "declaration-of-independence",
"title": "Declaration of Independence",
"blurb": "All 56 signers of the 1776 Declaration — the safest, fully public-domain edition.",
"sigs": 56
},
{
"code": "p",
"slug": "politics",
"title": "Politics & Statecraft",
"blurb": "Presidents, premiers and world leaders across two centuries.",
"sigs": 53
},
{
"code": "si",
"slug": "scientists-inventors",
"title": "Scientists & Inventors",
"blurb": "The minds who remade the modern world, in their own hand.",
"sigs": 13,
"roster": [
"Thomas Edison",
"Nikola Tesla",
"Albert Einstein",
"Isaac Newton",
"Charles Darwin",
"Louis Pasteur",
"Marie Curie",
"Michael Faraday",
"Benjamin Franklin",
"Alexander Graham Bell",
"Samuel Morse",
"Galileo Galilei",
"George Washington Carver"
],
"met_accent": "Barometer"
},
{
"code": "co",
"slug": "composers",
"title": "Great Composers",
"blurb": "The signatures behind the symphonies — Bach to Mahler.",
"sigs": 14,
"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"
],
"met_accent": "Drum"
},
{
"code": "wr",
"slug": "writers-novelists",
"title": "Writers & Novelists",
"blurb": "The hands that wrote the canon — Austen to Tolstoy.",
"sigs": 14,
"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"
],
"met_accent": "Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary"
},
{
"code": "po",
"slug": "poets",
"title": "The Poets",
"blurb": "Romantics and visionaries — every verse signed.",
"sigs": 10,
"roster": [
"Lord Byron",
"John Keats",
"Percy Bysshe Shelley",
"Walt Whitman",
"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow",
"Samuel Taylor Coleridge",
"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe",
"Robert Burns",
"William Blake",
"William Butler Yeats"
],
"met_accent": "Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct"
},
{
"code": "ph",
"slug": "philosophers",
"title": "Philosophers",
"blurb": "The architects of thought — Descartes to Nietzsche.",
"sigs": 10,
"roster": [
"Immanuel Kant",
"Voltaire",
"Jean-Jacques Rousseau",
"Friedrich Nietzsche",
"John Locke",
"Rene Descartes",
"Arthur Schopenhauer",
"John Stuart Mill",
"Baruch Spinoza",
"Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel"
],
"met_accent": "Aristotle with a Bust of Homer"
},
{
"code": "pa",
"slug": "painters-artists",
"title": "Painters & Masters",
"blurb": "The signatures of the easel — Rembrandt to Van Gogh.",
"sigs": 10,
"roster": [
"Claude Monet",
"Pierre-Auguste Renoir",
"Paul Cezanne",
"Edgar Degas",
"Francisco Goya",
"Eugene Delacroix",
"Edouard Manet",
"Paul Gauguin",
"J. M. W. Turner",
"John Singer Sargent"
],
"met_accent": "Rothschild lamp"
},
{
"code": "ex",
"slug": "explorers-navigators",
"title": "Explorers & Navigators",
"blurb": "The hands that charted the world.",
"sigs": 9,
"roster": [
"Christopher Columbus",
"Ferdinand Magellan",
"James Cook",
"Francis Drake",
"Samuel de Champlain",
"Hernan Cortes",
"Meriwether Lewis",
"William Clark",
"Vasco da Gama"
],
"met_accent": "Lucas van Uffel (died 1637)"
},
{
"code": "ge",
"slug": "generals-commanders",
"title": "Generals & Commanders",
"blurb": "The signatures that moved armies.",
"sigs": 10,
"roster": [
"Napoleon Bonaparte",
"Duke of Wellington",
"Ulysses S. Grant",
"Robert E. Lee",
"Horatio Nelson",
"Giuseppe Garibaldi",
"Simon Bolivar",
"Marquis de Lafayette",
"William Tecumseh Sherman",
"John J. Pershing"
],
"met_accent": "Pair of Four-Barreled Turnover Percussion Pistols of Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785–1851), with Pair of Box-Lock Turn-Off Pocket Pistols, Case, and Accessories"
},
{
"code": "mo",
"slug": "monarchs",
"title": "Monarchs & Royalty",
"blurb": "Kings and queens — sovereign hands across the centuries.",
"sigs": 9,
"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",
"Philip II of Spain",
"Napoleon Bonaparte"
],
"met_accent": "Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress"
},
{
"code": "py",
"slug": "physicists",
"title": "Physicists",
"blurb": "From classical mechanics to the quantum age.",
"sigs": 11,
"roster": [
"Albert Einstein",
"Isaac Newton",
"Niels Bohr",
"Max Planck",
"James Clerk Maxwell",
"Michael Faraday",
"Marie Curie",
"Ernest Rutherford",
"Erwin Schrodinger",
"Enrico Fermi",
"Nikola Tesla"
],
"met_accent": "Altar bell with Portuguese heads"
},
{
"code": "ma",
"slug": "mathematicians",
"title": "Mathematicians",
"blurb": "The signatures behind the theorems.",
"sigs": 8,
"roster": [
"Carl Friedrich Gauss",
"Leonhard Euler",
"Isaac Newton",
"Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz",
"Blaise Pascal",
"Pierre-Simon Laplace",
"Bernhard Riemann",
"Henri Poincare"
],
"met_accent": "Celestial globe with clockwork"
},
{
"code": "na",
"slug": "naturalists",
"title": "Naturalists",
"blurb": "The observers of the living world.",
"sigs": 6,
"roster": [
"Charles Darwin",
"John James Audubon",
"Alexander von Humboldt",
"Alfred Russel Wallace",
"Carl Linnaeus",
"Luther Burbank"
],
"met_accent": "Flowers in a Grotesque Vase"
},
{
"code": "as",
"slug": "astronomers",
"title": "Astronomers",
"blurb": "The hands that mapped the heavens.",
"sigs": 7,
"roster": [
"Galileo Galilei",
"Johannes Kepler",
"Nicolaus Copernicus",
"Isaac Newton",
"William Herschel",
"Tycho Brahe",
"Edwin Hubble"
],
"met_accent": "Celestial globe with clockwork"
},
{
"code": "av",
"slug": "aviation-pioneers",
"title": "Aviation Pioneers",
"blurb": "The first to sign the sky.",
"sigs": 8,
"roster": [
"Wilbur Wright",
"Orville Wright",
"Charles Lindbergh",
"Amelia Earhart",
"Alberto Santos-Dumont",
"Louis Bleriot",
"Ferdinand von Zeppelin",
"Eddie Rickenbacker"
],
"met_accent": "Portrait of a Noblewoman, Probably Isabella of Portugal (1397–1472)"
},
{
"code": "ab",
"slug": "abolitionists",
"title": "Abolition & Liberty",
"blurb": "The signatures that helped end slavery.",
"sigs": 7,
"roster": [
"Frederick Douglass",
"Abraham Lincoln",
"Harriet Beecher Stowe",
"John Brown",
"William Wilberforce",
"Charles Sumner",
"Wendell Phillips"
],
"met_accent": "Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)"
},
{
"code": "su",
"slug": "suffragists",
"title": "Suffragists & Pioneers",
"blurb": "Women who signed history forward.",
"sigs": 6,
"roster": [
"Susan B. Anthony",
"Elizabeth Cady Stanton",
"Florence Nightingale",
"Clara Barton",
"Marie Curie",
"Helen Keller"
],
"met_accent": "Portrait of Sor Juana de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe"
},
{
"code": "re",
"slug": "renaissance-masters",
"title": "Renaissance Masters",
"blurb": "The hands of the rebirth — Leonardo to Machiavelli.",
"sigs": 7,
"roster": [
"Leonardo da Vinci",
"Michelangelo Buonarroti",
"Galileo Galilei",
"Albrecht Durer",
"Niccolo Machiavelli",
"Nicolaus Copernicus",
"Titian"
],
"met_accent": "Pilgrim flask"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"slug": "playwrights",
"title": "Playwrights",
"blurb": "The dramatists, signed and staged.",
"sigs": 9,
"roster": [
"William Shakespeare",
"Moliere",
"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe",
"Friedrich Schiller",
"Henrik Ibsen",
"Anton Chekhov",
"Oscar Wilde",
"George Bernard Shaw",
"Christopher Marlowe"
],
"met_accent": "Mask"
},
{
"code": "ec",
"slug": "economists",
"title": "Economists & Thinkers",
"blurb": "The signatures behind the wealth of nations.",
"sigs": 6,
"roster": [
"Adam Smith",
"Karl Marx",
"John Maynard Keynes",
"John Stuart Mill",
"Jeremy Bentham",
"Friedrich Engels"
],
"met_accent": "Commode"
},
{
"code": "in",
"slug": "industrialists",
"title": "Industrialists & Tycoons",
"blurb": "The hands that built the Gilded Age.",
"sigs": 7,
"roster": [
"Andrew Carnegie",
"Cornelius Vanderbilt",
"J. P. Morgan",
"Henry Ford",
"Thomas Edison",
"George Westinghouse",
"John Jacob Astor"
],
"met_accent": "Enameled and Gilded Bottle"
},
{
"code": "aa",
"slug": "american-authors",
"title": "American Authors",
"blurb": "The signatures that built American letters — Irving to London.",
"sigs": 13,
"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"
],
"met_accent": "Portrait of Sor Juana de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe"
},
{
"code": "ff",
"slug": "founding-fathers",
"title": "Founding Fathers",
"blurb": "The architects of the American republic.",
"sigs": 9,
"roster": [
"Thomas Jefferson",
"Benjamin Franklin",
"John Adams",
"James Madison",
"Alexander Hamilton",
"John Jay",
"James Monroe",
"Patrick Henry",
"Thomas Paine"
],
"met_accent": "Desk and Bookcase"
},
{
"code": "pr",
"slug": "american-presidents",
"title": "American Presidents",
"blurb": "Executive signatures across two centuries.",
"sigs": 9,
"roster": [
"Thomas Jefferson",
"Abraham Lincoln",
"Theodore Roosevelt",
"Andrew Jackson",
"Ulysses S. Grant",
"Woodrow Wilson",
"Franklin D. Roosevelt",
"Grover Cleveland",
"William McKinley"
],
"met_accent": "Life Mask of Abraham Lincoln"
},
{
"code": "rv",
"slug": "revolutionaries",
"title": "Revolutionaries",
"blurb": "The hands that overturned the old order.",
"sigs": 9,
"roster": [
"Maximilien Robespierre",
"Georges Danton",
"Jean-Paul Marat",
"Simon Bolivar",
"Jose de San Martin",
"Giuseppe Garibaldi",
"Vladimir Lenin",
"Sun Yat-sen",
"Lajos Kossuth"
],
"met_accent": "Sabine Houdon (1787–1836)"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"slug": "nobel-laureates",
"title": "Nobel Laureates",
"blurb": "Early signatures of the prize.",
"sigs": 9,
"roster": [
"Marie Curie",
"Albert Einstein",
"Theodore Roosevelt",
"Rudyard Kipling",
"Ernest Rutherford",
"Max Planck",
"Rabindranath Tagore",
"George Bernard Shaw",
"Guglielmo Marconi"
],
"met_accent": "Henry IV, King of France (b. 1553, r. 1589–1610)"
},
{
"code": "md",
"slug": "medicine",
"title": "Medicine & Healers",
"blurb": "The signatures that conquered disease.",
"sigs": 9,
"roster": [
"Louis Pasteur",
"Joseph Lister",
"Robert Koch",
"Edward Jenner",
"Alexander Fleming",
"Florence Nightingale",
"William Harvey",
"William Osler",
"Sigmund Freud"
],
"met_accent": "Bronze instrument"
},
{
"code": "es",
"slug": "european-statesmen",
"title": "European Statesmen",
"blurb": "The hands that steered nations — Talleyrand to Churchill.",
"sigs": 10,
"roster": [
"Otto von Bismarck",
"William Ewart Gladstone",
"Benjamin Disraeli",
"Klemens von Metternich",
"Georges Clemenceau",
"Camillo Benso di Cavour",
"Charles Maurice de Talleyrand",
"Robert Peel",
"Giuseppe Mazzini",
"Charles de Gaulle"
],
"met_accent": "Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)"
}
]
}