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!

hautecatture:

(by Ylla)

theladyandthecat:

Audrey Hepburn
and the Cat called Cat
1961
photographer: unknown

Members of the Russian Women’s Battalion of Death, World War One. Source: Corbis.

You can read more about the Women’s Battalions here.

lemewsee:

Elizabeth Norton, Little Grey Cat, ca. 1926, Color Woodcut, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

hautecatture:

(photographer unknown, 1930)

I’ve been on a melancholy listening binge of Beastie Boys these last few days. I hadn’t looked at the “Check Your Head” liner notes in about 20 years, but I noticed today that the collage features a bunch of cats, including a kitten in a snug-fitting sweater.

There’s also a cat in the “Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun” video.

(Note: Haute Catture posted this image first. I wanted to reblog it, but the image size was too small for my theme, so I found a larger image here.)

Patrick is all “HAY GUYZ”

hautecatture:

Blue Persian cat known as ‘Patrick of Allington’, Best in Show winner of 1933.

(via onemillioncats)

Shhh… by arthurvankruining on Flickr.

1956 calendar illustration

From THE ILLUSTRATED CAT

Portrait of cat with bird sitting on his head. Source: Corbis.