Maps of Paris: 1754-1907 — database from The Getty #arthistory #geography #histodobs #mapping https://www.getty.edu/research/collections/collection/113YM3?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=July%202023&utm_content=July%202023%20CID_89446f75fd2acdceeaf56b7a43b66bf7&utm_source=Campaign%20Monitor%20Research%20Institute%20News&utm_term=Browse%20the%20finding%20aid

@ddmeringolo on Mastodon you will find the hashtag #histodobs and the group list @histodons helpful. Hashtags work the same.

Twelve Days of Mortality History Christmas - Day Three🎄💀: A pair of skulls with gold wings beneath them from the monument to Richard Blisse (d. Aug 1703) and his wife Elizabeth (d. Jan 1729/30) at Southwark Cathedral. A bust of an impressively wigged Blisse appears in the centre flanked by two gold putti #MementoMori #churches #ChurchHistory #histodobs #history #memorials

Today is the anniversary of the #SandCreekMassacre, in 1864, when hundreds of Cheyenne, mostly women & children, were shot & hacked to pieces by U.S. Colonel John Chivington & 700 of his men who invaded the village under cover of night.

The Cheyenne were camped under a flag of peace.

U.S. Captain Silas Soule & Lieutenant Joseph Cramer refused to participate in the act of genocide & ordered their men to stand down. In a letter to his mother, Soule wrote that +300 Cheyenne were massacred that day & that “most of them were women and children.”

Soule’s account in a separate letter to an army major reveals just how grisly the massacre was. “Hundreds of women and children were coming towards us, and getting on their knees for mercy,” only to be shot and “have their brains beat out by men professing to be civilized.”

Abraham Lincoln was, of course, President.

H/t Ruth Robertson.

#histodobs.