previous cats and cats from the past
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children
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military
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baby cats
big cats
black cats
siamese cats
cartoons, art, and illustration
possibly not okay and/or sad
cat falling in slow motion
gjon mili's cat blackie
rabougri: chat de gouttiere
black cat auditions for tales of terror
los angeles cat show
spitalfields nippers
the krueger family
the trimpey family
cats in baskets and other containers
cats in motion
cats in labs
cats in wisconsin
cats in people clothes and/or doing people things
cats and dairy
cats and corn
cats and non-cats
uhhh wut
personal favorites
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slight perceptual problem
the morthouse (formerly the ossuary)
old and welsh
![[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.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m38wx3ohnP1qiahqzo1_500.jpg)
[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.

Noire et Blanche; Indécision (1904) by postaletrice on Flickr.
Vintage photographic postcard, circulated in 1904, undivided back, published by “Le bon éditeur” (sic), Paris, France.
© Casas-Rodríguez Collection, 2009. Some rights reserved.

As if you didn’t need a picture of a baby and a kitten with a pink backdrop today.
(photographer unknown, 1950s)

Did folks groom cats with paintbrushes back then or something?
George Silk, Los Angeles cat show, 1952. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

From The Fat Cat: A Danish Folktale by Jack Kent, 1971. Via Vintage Kids’ Books My Kid Loves.