Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1944. Source: LIFE photo archive, hosted by Google.

Author W. Somerset Maugham (L) sitting with poet Max Eastman (R) and holding ‘Celestial’ and ‘Thistle,’ Eastman’s Persian cats, with ‘Frosting,’ Eastman’s white collie, at their side during Maugham’s summer on Cape Cod.

Stanley Kubrick: Betsy Von Furstenberg holding a cat in a restaurant, 1950. Source: Museum of the City of New York.

Carl Van Vechten: Robert Downing with his cat, Ginger, October 1959. Source: Museum of the City of New York.

“Composer Alan Hovhaness, working in score littered studio with black cat nestling amongst the papers on the piano.” Photograph by Gordon Parks, December 1955. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

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“Actor Laurence Olivier relaxing w. his actress wife Vivien Leigh & their Siamese cat in living room at home.” Photograph by Hans Wild, London, 1946. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

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Elinor Glyn

• by Claude Harris

Source: National Portrait Gallery, London.

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Illustrator Erica Macdonald, 1947

• by John Gay

From Vanished Americana:

John Jr. and Caroline surprise their dad, President John F. Kennedy, in the Oval Office here in this Halloween 1963 photo. What makes this photo even more poignant was that a mere three weeks later, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963.

Charles Lindbergh with a kitten, undated. Source: San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives on Flickr.