tail puller by the ghost of me on Flickr.

Postcard from 1905.

Alternate title: “How Not to Hold Cats.”

nypl:

In honor of the first Caturday in May, here’s a lithograph by Edward Penfield that features two kitties. That should doubly satisfy your cat cravings! The lithograph was created sometime in the late 1800s or early 1900s, and currently sits in the Library’s Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs (which just recently launched its own catalog; we highly recommend you browse). Happy Caturday!

[Baby seated with cat] by SMU Central University Libraries on Flickr.

Paul H. Naschke, ca. 1890-1894. From the Lawrence T. Jones III Texas photography collection, Galveston, Texas. Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library.

lemewsee:

Chi Rho Iota page, from Book of Matthew (1:18), from the Book of Kells, ca. 800 CE, Ink and pigments on vellum, Trinity College Library, Dublin

Cat Number One is all, “Oh SNAP.”

Portrait of two funny cats, undated. Source: Corbis.

cavetocanvas:

Will Barnet, The Bannister, 1981

(via lemewsee)

W. Eugene Smith: Anna M. Moses aka Grandma Moses holding kitten, 1947. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

Welcome to our first installment of “Find the Cat.”

Detroit, 1903. From Shorpy:

Detroit circa 1903. “Foundry and machine shop, Leland & Faulconer Mfg. Co.” With bearded proprietors Robert Faulconer (left) and Henry Leland standing at either end, and two shop mascots in the top row. In 1905 the company, which made car engines, merged with Cadillac Automobile Co. Some years after selling Cadillac to General Motors, Leland started the Lincoln Motor Co., which was eventually bought out by Ford. Detroit Publishing glass negative.

vintagetails:

Home, sweet home. No. C89.

Found photo. With no ID.

BALLIN’.

From the book Sam by Edward Quigley (photographs) and John Crawford (text), 1937. Via janwillemsen on Flickr.