Cat Number One is all, “Oh SNAP.”

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

BALLIN’.

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

Celtic Tiger? by National Library of Ireland on The Commons on Flickr.

Fierce looking tiger in a cage in Dublin Zoo. Showing how photography captures one moment in time, we also have a photo of him(?) taken a couple of minutes before or after, where he just looks like a big pussy cat…

Date: March 1936

Just a pussy cat by National Library of Ireland on The Commons on Flickr.

Accompanying this gorgeous lion cub is Mr Flood, who worked at Dublin Zoo for many years.

Date: Circa 1936

Tippi Hedren at Shambala Preserve. Photograph by Christian Simonpietri, December 1972. Source: Corbis.

Actress Tippi Hedren watches a tiger jump through the kitchen window of her home on the Shambala Preserve she founded and manages.

hautecatture:

(by Ylla)

lemewsee:

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Des chats: images sans paroles (Cats: Pictures without Words), ca. 1898, Photorelief Etchings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

From the book, The Cat and the Human Imagination: Feline Images from Bast to Garfield by Katherine M. Rogers:

“Through his career, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen portrayed cats in every mood and situation. Although he could draw comic cartoon cats (as in The Horrible End of a Goldfish, 1884) or eerily impressive ones (such as the demonic black tomcat that advertises an avant-garde revue), most of his cats are privileged pets in comfortable domestic settings. Some spread themselves out on cushions, monumentally calm and supremely self-possessed; others exert every muscle to express their importunate demands for food or petting. But even when they are avidly eyeing a bowl of milk held by Steinlen’s small daughter, Colette, there is no hint of menace: the child is comfortable and the well-fed cats appear as confident friends rather than predators ready to seize what they want.”

Nat Farbman: Cats Blackie & Brownie catching squirts of milk during milking at Arch Badertscher’s dairy farm, 1954. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

Nat Farbman: Cats Blackie & Brownie catching squirts of milk during milking at Arch Badertscher’s dairy farm. Fresno, CA, 1954. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

the chase by the ghost of me on Flickr.

Postcard from 1925.