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Cassidy Percoco
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Fashion/material culture scholar. Collections manager. Author of Regency Women's Dress, 1800-1830. AskHistorians moderator. (she/her)

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Anyone have a sense of what this "Royal Bloo[d]ed How [?]" on the horn is? It looks like it might be roughly where Glens Falls is today, but I don't really know of much going on in that area in the 1750s-1760s.
A closeup of the map, showing (in order going up the Hudson) Saratoga, Fort Miller, Fort Edward, Royal Blooed How [?], and H. Broock. Google Maps, showing Fort Edward, Hudson Falls, and Glens Falls placed around the bend in the Hudson.
November 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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#Museum30 The Fenimore's collections page is down right now, so I've borrowed a mid #18thc powder horn from the Met. Many F&I War powder horns are carved with names, imagery, and other info; this one has a map of the Mohawk and Hudson rivers. 🗃️ www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
A carved powder horn with the open end filled in with metal; this side shows the city and harbor of New York, with the Hudson River climbing up above it, with Saratoga, Fort Edward, Lake George, and other locations marked out on it.
November 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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I suspect Sophia's rendition is influenced by Henry Singleton's ca. 1792 painting, although it's not as faithful as this needlework picture by Mary "Polly" Abney Kenney. www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks... emuseum.colonialwilliamsburg.org/objects/31947
A painting that shows Lavinia in a straw bonnet and white gown, her apron tucked up to form a bag to hold wheat, and Palemon in a green suit probably meant to evoke the early 17th century. A needlework picture with a Lavinia and Palemon in very similar clothes and poses. There is a very detailed landscape behind them, and a poem beneath.
November 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Literary lovers were a common topic for artists, and Palemon and Lavinia can be found represented among them. This painting by Angelica Kauffmann (ca. 1781) depicts them in somewhat more historical dress. www.famsf.org/artworks/pal...
A painting in a gilded frame with gold mat; Lavinia, dressed in a blue skirt and greyish mantle, bends down while Palemon, dressed in brown, addresses her.
November 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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#Museum30 This ca. 1806 needlework picture imagines Palemon and Lavinia, the rural lovers of a 1720s poem by James Johnson based on the story of Ruth, as contemporaries of the artist, Sophia Burpee (1788-1814). 🗃️ collections.fenimoreart.org/objects/496/...
A needlework picture embroidered in silk, with a man in a brown coat and riding boots and a woman in a white gown and straw bonnet standing in front of a wheat field.
November 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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It takes longer to spin a three-ply, but the yarn looks so much nicer.
A bobbin full of a dark red yarn on a walnut-stained spinning wheel.
November 7, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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#Museum30 This small box was painted by Ann Butler (1813-1887), a Greene County artist who decorated the tin items her father produced before her marriage. 🗃️ collections.fenimoreart.org/objects/2119...
A small tin box with a domed lid, painted with a border of leaves and flowers on top, with a basket of fruit on the front, and with starbursts on the sides.
November 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Swerving for #Museum30 6 (clay) with our bronze bust of Henry Clay. We have a large collection of plaster busts of significant 18th-19th century figures made by J. H. I. Browere in the 1820s, and bronze versions done in the 1940s. collections.fenimoreart.org/objects/2036... 🗃️
A bronze bust of a thin man with slicked-back hair. There is a classical drape around his shoulders and chest, and the bust rests on a round pedestal.
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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#Museum30 day four. One of my favorite sketch collections at the Fenimore is F.O.C. Darley's prep for illustrating a full set of James Fenimore Cooper's works in the 1850s. This scene is from The Red Rover, a sea novel adapted numerous times for the stage. collections.fenimoreart.org/objects/2121...
A pencil sketch on yellowed paper, depicting a Black man lying on a ship's deck, his head and shoulders in a white man's lap, as sailors glare up at someone.
November 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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For day three of #Museum30 (prompt: eyes), this dignified portrait of Mrs. G. Brightman by William Matthew Prior. She looks at the viewer with a solemn expression -- but her animated eyes seem to be smiling, to me. collections.fenimoreart.org/objects/208/...
A portrait of a woman with dark hair looking steadily out at the viewer. Her face is somewhat lined and she wears a brown dress with a white chemisette.
November 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Babygirl why are you doing that
A grey cat curled up with her foot over her head.
November 1, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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THEY'RE JUST SO CUTE (and tired out from being scared of the doorbell)
A grey cat curled up on her side, with her back to me/the viewer. A buff cat curled up on a white blanket and on some knitting.
November 1, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Waking all of us up with today's Footwear Friday offering, a pair of shoes - possibly slippers - of vivid red leather, dating to ca. 1880. The upward point on the vamp gives them even more flair! 🗃️🪡 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
A pair of red leather shoes with low, upward-pointing vamp and low curved heel.
October 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Tonight's cuddle:
A buff cat and a grey cat, loafing side by side. The buff cat is practically on top of the grey one, who looks smushed and resentful.
October 17, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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When it's chilly, they snuggle!
A tiny grey cat curled up against a white blanket, with a larger buff cat looming over her.
October 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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They have a shoe on display that is said to have been Catharine Van Rensselaer Schuyler's wedding slipper ... I would date it later (1775-1785) and suggest it belonged to a daughter's wedding or was worn later in her life. 🗃️🪡
A single woman's high heeled shoe in beige silk, with a narrow buckle and slender heel.
October 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Schuyler Mansion in Albany, back in the day. 🗃️
A diorama of Schuyler Mansion and its grounds in the 18th century: a red and white house with expansive orchards and gardens.
October 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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My 1920s Cinderella retelling, The Happy Secret of It all! books2read.com/u/470Rd7
A screencap of the Books2Read page, showing the cover of the book (with an illustration of a thin, blonde butch woman in a suit dancing with a slightly shorter brunette in a pink evening dress) and the title, The Happy Secret of It All, with a "Get It Now" button.
October 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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New digital download listing in my Etsy shop! "Beehive for Bairns" is a collection of vintage knits for babies, from newborns to year-olds.

I'm going to try to digitize more of my vintage patterns soon ...

www.etsy.com/listing/4378... 🗃️🪡
The cover of "Beehive for Bairns", volume four, showing an adorable baby in matching nubbly cap, cardigan, and booties.
September 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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As a kid, I loved her as Mrs. Biddle in The Happiest Millionaire.
Greer Garson in a dark green dress and hat, with boxes in her arms and a hanging hatbox in her hand.
September 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Footwear Friday: a pair of sturdy, plain shoes that certainly are made for walking! The mid-nineteenth century equivalent of sneakers. 🗃️🪡 www.facebook.com/fenimoreartm...
A photo of a pair of black leather shoes, laced with brown cords. Very plain; slightly rounded toes.
September 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Paw!!!!!!
Two cats, one grey and one light orange. The light orange cat has his paw on top of the grey like he's hugging her and it's SO CUTE.
September 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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The snuggling absolutely didn't look this consensual five minutes ago.
Two cats, one grey and one light orange, snuggling together face to face.
September 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Pi shawl progress! Each row takes forever but it's getting bigger.
A garnet-colored circular shawl on a circular knitting needle, folded so you can only see about a third of it (since you can't flatten it out).
September 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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This arresting portrait by Washington G. Smith of Cooperstown, NY displays the fashionable silhouette on the cusp of the Natural Form era: swaths of draped silk taffeta in the back of the skirt, but no clear bustle. collections.fenimoreart.org/objects/2769... 🗃️🪡
A studio photograph of a woman in a velvet-trimmed gown, with a dog curled up on a chair.
September 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM