The stars fading from view on the morning of Henrietta Leavitt’s birth, July 4, 1868, Lancaster, Massachusetts; The stars returning into view on the evening of Henrietta Leavitt’s death, December 12, 1921, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (From the 2018 exhibition Measure, at the Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Hand-stitched cotton, each panel 100" x 54." Photo by Steward Clements)

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From the 2018 exhibition Measure, at the Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Hand-stitched cotton, each panel 100" x 54." Photo by Steward Clements

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