Cassidy Percoco
@mimicofmodes.com
Fashion/material culture scholar. Collections manager. Author of Regency Women's Dress, 1800-1830. AskHistorians moderator. (she/her)
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I went looking to see if this was my town and ended up on the "city" Facebook page, reading deranged comments about the deer ...
November 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I went looking to see if this was my town and ended up on the "city" Facebook page, reading deranged comments about the deer ...
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PLAN FORT EDWARD - Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center
collections.leventhalmap.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
!!! Thank you! I can see the "ck" now on the horn map!
November 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
!!! Thank you! I can see the "ck" now on the horn map!
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Duke Riley.
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November 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Duke Riley.
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Yes, that rings a bell!
November 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Yes, that rings a bell!
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.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4av2cjnnscfnhzbjs7mvixzg/bafkreih7wpcabsgu7r5v6pdkcsonurj3qegutgjhetnye2ed4tj7ke5xwa@jpeg)
November 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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.
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This research gets called "AI" now because that's the latest buzzword. 5 years ago it would've been called "machine learning" (the term the researchers themselves use, although the magazine writer calls it AI). In the oughts it would've been called "big data." Before that, "time-series forecasting."
November 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This research gets called "AI" now because that's the latest buzzword. 5 years ago it would've been called "machine learning" (the term the researchers themselves use, although the magazine writer calls it AI). In the oughts it would've been called "big data." Before that, "time-series forecasting."
I would love to blame it on autocorrect, but I made this mistake artisanally on my computer. 😩
November 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I would love to blame it on autocorrect, but I made this mistake artisanally on my computer. 😩
And it's right there in the caption! omg
November 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
And it's right there in the caption! omg
And I gave him name wrong multiple times! Probably why I couldn't find the text. Thank you for the correction.
November 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
And I gave him name wrong multiple times! Probably why I couldn't find the text. Thank you for the correction.
I can't find the text of Johnson's Seasons, but here is a take on the story by David Mountfort from 1783: archive.org/details/bim_...
Palemon and Lavinia. A legendary tale. In two parts. Enlarged from a story in Thomson's Seasons. By David Mountfort, ... 1783 : Mountfort, David : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Arch...
Palemon and Lavinia. A legendary tale. In two parts. Enlarged from a story in Thomson's Seasons. By David Mountfort, ... 1783..Digitized from...
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November 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I can't find the text of Johnson's Seasons, but here is a take on the story by David Mountfort from 1783: archive.org/details/bim_...
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
November 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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
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...
November 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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...