Welcome to our first installment of “Find the Cat.”

Detroit, 1903. From Shorpy:

Detroit circa 1903. “Foundry and machine shop, Leland & Faulconer Mfg. Co.” With bearded proprietors Robert Faulconer (left) and Henry Leland standing at either end, and two shop mascots in the top row. In 1905 the company, which made car engines, merged with Cadillac Automobile Co. Some years after selling Cadillac to General Motors, Leland started the Lincoln Motor Co., which was eventually bought out by Ford. Detroit Publishing glass negative.

John Travolta, photographed by Albane Navizet, 1985. Source: Corbis.

yourcatwasdelicious:

anthony perkins

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

I’m guessing this is someone important/famous, but I don’t know who. Anyone know?

Undated, photographer not specified. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

cavetocanvas:

Will Barnet, Self Portrait, 1967

From the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:

Will Barnet was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, in 1911. He attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from 1927 to 1930 and cites his experiences with the School’s “rigorous curriculum” as very influential in his artistic career. Barnet studied, and later taught, at the Art Students League of New York, where he became the institution’s official printmaker. Barnet’s style has evolved from his early work—abstract paintings heavily influenced by Native American art and the Indian Space movement—to later figurative works dealing with visual tropes of New England, such as women looking out to sea. He is most famous for his abstract paintings but many critics underestimate the continuity of his body of work; an interest in the formal elements of composition and painting persist in his figurative pieces, including this self-portrait. The artist references his figurative style as linking to the “clear-edge” geometric abstraction of his earlier work. This painting is the only self-portrait Barnett ever created.

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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.)

Shhh… by arthurvankruining on Flickr.

1956 calendar illustration

From THE ILLUSTRATED CAT

yourcatwasdelicious:

errol flynn + theodore thomson flynn

fuckyeahchaplin:

Charlie and Merna Kennedy on the set of the Circus c.1928

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