Old-Timey Cats

previous cats and cats from the past

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Will Barnet, Poster The book, from “Bicentennial Prints, 1975″. USA. Via Cooper Hewitt

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Been watching Ken Burns' film about the Dust Bowl. Spotted a number of OTCs in the stills, including these guys.

Image: Will and Caroline Henderson, Texas County, Oklahoma. 1920s. Eleanor Grandstaff Collection.

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Redditor xLittleMidgetx’s uncle and his cat, ca. 1978.

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Happy belated birthday, Elizabeth Bishop.

Photograph by Louise Crane of Bishop and her cat, Minnow. Via the Cat Museum of San Francisco.

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Little Edie Beale at Grey Gardens in 1972. Photograph by Tom Wargacki. Via.

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"My grandpa and his beloved cat." Source: abathinggorilla.

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The narrator can hardly believe his luck at landing this transcript. 

From the insanely wonderful British Pathé archive, now on YouTube.

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Prisoner and trained cat at San Quentin Prison, ca. 1925-1935. Source: UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library; via Calisphere.

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Cat Confronts Two Dogs (Lawrence, Kansas, 1950) by Lou Horacek on Flickr.

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pc poesje bloemenmand 1929 by janwillemsen on Flickr.

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Happy 100th birthday, William S. Burroughs. Image via VICE: The Cat Offers Itself.

[natgeofound]

Cat and white rat abide in peace. When different species grow up together, they often lose their enmity, April 1964. Photograph by Walter Chandoha, National Geographic

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NYT's 6th Floor has this wonderful little video and article on Walter Chandoha, one of my all-time-favorite cat photographers. (Thanks to my friend Kelly Jean for the link!)

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Noiyyyt noiyyyyt. Source: Wooway1 on Flickr.

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My uncle, Bryan Hart, with Peter Sneaky, ca. 1958. Probably taken in New Marlborough, Massachusetts.

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My mom, terrorizing a barn cat with her munchkin moves; New Marlborough, Mass., 1949.

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My mom at home in Hartford, CT: packed and ready to leave for Wheaton College in Massachusetts. Fall 1965.

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I get boxes of old photographs; my mom and stepdad get closet space. Cat pixx ensue. Above: In my grandmother's kitchen, Hartford, CT, sometime before August 1967.