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gjon mili's cat blackie
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black cat auditions for tales of terror
los angeles cat show
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Unidentified woman standing outside with her cat in her arms. A brick wall is behind her, ca. 1905-1910. Photo by Jessie Tarbox Beals. Is part of Jessie Tarbox Beals Photograph. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

Eastern Nazarene College (ENC) changed its name from PCI in 1918 and therefore, this photo pre-dates the roaring 20’s. We’d LOVE to get some help with names: baseball team members or the CAT! Comments always welcome at: http://encarchives.wordpress.com/

From the Missouri State University yearbook, The Ozarko, 1973. Pictured is the MSU National Theater Honor Society, Alpha Psi Omega, with Dr. Irene Coger holding Momma Cat.

Photograph of Charles F. Lummis with his cat, Luto, at El Alisal, Los Angeles, California, August 16, 1917. P.32661 (Braun Research Library Collection, Autry National Center) collections.theautry.org

John Uri Lloyd, one of the Lloyd Library and Museum’s founders, reading his famous book, Etidorhpa, sitting beside a painting of a beloved family cat.

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.

Eskimo boy with cat and dogs, Alaska, ca. 1905. Photograph by Suzanne R. Bernardi Jeffery. Ms. Jeffery was a schoolteacher who worked for many years in Alaska.