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For Veterans Day. A day late! 
sailor and cat by marilyn_cvitanic on Flickr.

For Veterans Day. A day late! 

sailor and cat by marilyn_cvitanic on Flickr.

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

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

collective-history:

An officer of 444 Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA), smokes a pipe as he supervises a kitten balancing on a 12 inch gun shell near Arras, 19 July 1918

collective-history:

An officer of 444 Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA), smokes a pipe as he supervises a kitten balancing on a 12 inch gun shell near Arras, 19 July 1918

(via weirdvintage)

Time to play “Find the Cat: Civil War Edition.”
Image: Officers at headquarters by The U.S. National Archives on Flickr.

Photographer: Brady, Mathew, 1823 (ca.) - 1896 Coverage Dates: ca. 1860 - ca. 1865

Time to play “Find the Cat: Civil War Edition.”

Image: Officers at headquarters by The U.S. National Archives on Flickr.

Photographer: Brady, Mathew, 1823 (ca.) - 1896

Coverage Dates: ca. 1860 - ca. 1865

Members of the Russian Women’s Battalion of Death, World War One. Source: Corbis.
You can read more about the Women’s Battalions here.

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

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

vintagetails:

Dog, cat, baby and cigarette. No. C25
Found photo with no ID.

vintagetails:

Dog, cat, baby and cigarette. No. C25

Found photo with no ID.

[Coal is in short supply], cartoon by Leslie Gilbert Illingworth, 1941. Source: Cartoon Collection, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales.

A soldier sleeps and a woman is frying sausages over a candle. There are coal coupons in an unlit fireplace.

[Coal is in short supply], cartoon by Leslie Gilbert Illingworth, 1941. Source: Cartoon Collection, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales.

A soldier sleeps and a woman is frying sausages over a candle. There are coal coupons in an unlit fireplace.

Grey Villet, Tabby cat standing in front gondola during Operation Stratolab, 1956. Rapid City, South Dakota. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.
Project Strato-Lab was a high-altitude, manned balloon program sponsored by the Navy in the 1950s and ’60s. It lifted people into the upper stratosphere! Read more here.

Grey Villet, Tabby cat standing in front gondola during Operation Stratolab, 1956. Rapid City, South Dakota. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

Project Strato-Lab was a high-altitude, manned balloon program sponsored by the Navy in the 1950s and ’60s. It lifted people into the upper stratosphere! Read more here.

Captain who commands an armored division, playing with a kitten. China, 1947. Photograph by Mark Kauffman. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

Captain who commands an armored division, playing with a kitten. China, 1947. Photograph by Mark Kauffman. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.