Red Kerce: “Mittens” and Southern toad watching each other, October 23, 1953. Source: State Archives of Florida, via Florida Memory.

From the book Siamese Cats by Louise Van der Meid, 1960. Photographs by the author. Source: Open Library.

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.

From the book Siamese Cats by Louise Van der Meid, 1960. Photographs by the author. Source: Open Library.

Page from a delightful children’s book I found in a used book store. 

Dancing Perch: Folk Songs and Ditties (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1974). Compiled by N. Kolpakova; translated from the Russian by Fainna Solasko; drawings by Yuri Vasnetsov.

P.S. Animalarium has a wonderful post on Yuri Vasnetsov.

“‘Tarzan,” 180 pound great dane; ‘Happy,’ kitten,” May 1951. Source: Los Angeles Examiner Collection, Doheny Memorial Library, University of Southern California.

“Cats drink from bowls where goldfish swim around unconcerned and in no danger,” 1952. Source: Los Angeles Examiner Collection, Doheny Memorial Library, University of Southern California.

No. 1. ‘Francis’ (the cat) quenches thirst while ‘Toby’ (the goldfish) swims nonchalantly under tongue. ‘Francis’ disdains drinking from dish on floor, prefers to lap water from ‘Toby’s’ bowl and never molests fish. This has been going for several months in the home of Tamara Lee, 11, 3702 Dolphin Street, San Pedro, whose pets they are.

No. 2. ‘Blondie’ (the cat) and ‘Willie’ (the fish) likewise get along without fish becoming a ‘snack.’

“Mabel Taliaferro, an American Staffordshire Bull Terrier Puppy, and a Cat,” ca. 1917. Source: Wisconsin Historical Society.

Taliaferro sits in an overstuffed chair and holds her pets still for the photographer. Original caption: “Mabel Taliaferro, Metro Star, in the library of her New York apartment with her pets ‘Hopey’ and ‘Gertie.’”

For all you cat-papists out there. Image via Vintage Printable:

Via LOC: “Print shows on the left, a cat, representing Pope Pius VI, and on the right, a rooster, representing Napoleon I, holding a bundle of dried twigs and telling the cat to retract its claws, resulting in the Treaty of Tolentino.”

Gone Fishing by Wooway1 on Flickr.