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.

[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.

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

‘Whisky’ the cat, pet and mascot of HMS Duke of York (ca. 1940s). Source: National Maritime Museum on Flickr.

This photograph is featured in Arctic Convoys, a new photographic exhibition looking at the experiences of those who served on the Arctic Convoys. It’s on at the National Maritime Museum until March 2012, www.nmm.ac.uk/convoys/

petsincollections:

Teaching a cat a trick aboard the cruiser Olympia, circa 1898.

Photograph from the Littlejohn collection at J. Welles Henderson Archives & Library, Independence Seaport Museum.

http://www.phillyseaport.org/Museum_Library.shtml

(Source: dada4you, via vintagetails)

Alley Cat Zero! by San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives on Flickr.

Alley Cat Zero of the 62nd Fighter Interceptor Squadron is the first supersonic feline! Read all about her here. 

The article about Alley Cat Zero is pretty awesome.

petsincollections:

Sailors with two ship cats, circa 1898.

Photograph from the Littlejohn collection at J. Welles Henderson Archives & Library, Independence Seaport Museum.

http://www.phillyseaport.org/Museum_Library.shtml