Will Barnet, Poster The book, from “Bicentennial Prints, 1975″. USA. Via Cooper Hewitt
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.
Happy belated birthday, Elizabeth Bishop.
Photograph by Louise Crane of Bishop and her cat, Minnow. Via the Cat Museum of San Francisco.
Did you know that cats are traditionally revered in Islam?
John Frederick Lewis (1804-1876): Cat resting on a pillow next to an imam in Cairo.
Little Edie Beale at Grey Gardens in 1972. Photograph by Tom Wargacki. Via.
“My grandpa and his beloved cat.” Source: abathinggorilla.
The narrator can hardly believe his luck at landing this transcript.
From the insanely wonderful British Pathé archive, now on YouTube.
Prisoner and trained cat at San Quentin Prison, ca. 1925-1935. Source: UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library; via Calisphere.
Cat Confronts Two Dogs (Lawrence, Kansas, 1950) by Lou Horacek on Flickr.