“Wartime Railroading: Operator-Leverman Baker acting as junction traffic director with help of cat, Tom.” Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt, Yemassee Junction, South Carolina, 1942. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

George Silk, Los Angeles cat show, 1952. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

For Veterans Day. A day late! 

sailor and cat by marilyn_cvitanic on Flickr.

Brassaï: “Les équilibristes, montreur de foire avec chat et rat blanc,” ca. 1930.  Source: Réunion des musées nationaux.

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.

Canecutters relax on a verandah at Innisfail (1927) by State Library of Queensland, Australia on Flickr.

Group of Italian canecutters pose for a portrait on a verandah. They wear work clothes. One man holds a bottle of beer? and another holds a kitten. In the back row are C. Danesi, P. D’Urso, G. Pappalardo, V. Barbagallo and A. Barbagallo. In the front row are R. Spina, A. D’Urso, A. Sapunno and G Palazzolo.

Dutch postcard. Source: the ghost of me on Flickr.

Loomis Dean: Private Floyd Humeston walking pet lion Fagen on leash at beach, 1951. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

Kind of weird. I’m not sure what the microscope has to do with a dislocated paw, but that’s what the caption said.

Veterinarian Dr. John A. Roberts examines a cat with a dislocated paw. Photograph by Rosemary Gilliat Eaton, British Columbia, 1954. Source: Library and Archives Canada.

You got your pipe and your books and your cat. What the fuck else do you need?

Margaret Bourke-White: Portrait of Lord Frederick Leith-Ross, Britain’s Chief Economic Advisor, posing with his beloved Siamese cat in his study at home, 1939. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.