Old-Timey Cats

Image: Will and Caroline Henderson, Texas County, Oklahoma. 1920s. Eleanor Grandstaff Collection.

Redditor xLittleMidgetx’s uncle and his cat, ca. 1978.

Photograph by Louise Crane of Bishop and her cat, Minnow. Via the Cat Museum of San Francisco.

Little Edie Beale at Grey Gardens in 1972. Photograph by Tom Wargacki. Via.

"My grandpa and his beloved cat." Source: abathinggorilla.

From the insanely wonderful British Pathé archive, now on YouTube.

Prisoner and trained cat at San Quentin Prison, ca. 1925-1935. Source: UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library; via Calisphere.

Cat Confronts Two Dogs (Lawrence, Kansas, 1950) by Lou Horacek on Flickr.

pc poesje bloemenmand 1929 by janwillemsen on Flickr.

Happy 100th birthday, William S. Burroughs. Image via VICE: The Cat Offers Itself.

Noiyyyt noiyyyyt. Source: Wooway1 on Flickr.

My uncle, Bryan Hart, with Peter Sneaky, ca. 1958. Probably taken in New Marlborough, Massachusetts.

My mom, terrorizing a barn cat with her munchkin moves; New Marlborough, Mass., 1949.

My mom at home in Hartford, CT: packed and ready to leave for Wheaton College in Massachusetts. Fall 1965.

I get boxes of old photographs; my mom and stepdad get closet space. Cat pixx ensue. Above: In my grandmother's kitchen, Hartford, CT, sometime before August 1967.