Pets-in-Collections

1860-1890

Squirrel

Artist/maker unknown

Philadelphia Museum of Art

c.1932-1941

Squirrel

William Edmondson

1819-1821

White Squirrel

Titian Ramsay Peale II

American, 1799 - 1885

Boy hunting with dog

Schoonover, Frank Earle, 1877-1972

Delaware Art Museum

Woods, paths, and nature on campus - Pigeons in flight

Emory University Office of Alumni Publications Photographs

Kenneth Roberts, Kennebunkport, 1939

Kenneth Roberts and his dogs at his home, Rocky Pasture, in Kennebunkport, July 27, 1939.

Roberts (1885-1957) was a well-known novelist and magazine writer from Maine.

Maine Historical Society

Eight puppies in a wooden crate, ca. 1930

Portland Press Herald photographers captured eight puppies, likely English Springer Spaniels, posing for the camera in a wooden crate. Stories and photographs of dogs, dog shows, and kennel clubs, were often included in the Portland Sunday Telegram and Sunday Press Herald editions of the newspaper.

Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media

An African American man on a beach, with a sea turtle

Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910.

Robert Langmuir African American Photograph Collection

Boating on Madawaska Lake, ca. 1930

New Sweden Historical Society

Madawaska Lake was the main summer resort for New Sweden and nearby towns. It offered anglers and boaters a full and satisfying day at the lake.

Sandy the cat, Portland (Maine), 1903

Sandy was a Maine Coon cat who lived with the Stevens family in Portland. The Maine Coon breed originated in Maine and was a very popular pet around 1900, when Sandy was part of the Stevens home.

Maine Coons have long and thick fur coats, tufted ears, and snowshoe feet, leading to numerous origin stories. Some suggest they are raccoon or bobcat hybrids or descendants of Norwegian Forest cats, brought to Maine on Viking ships. In reality, the Maine Coon trace their lineage to English settler colonialists who started communities in Maine in the 1600s. Today, the Maine Coon is the state of Maine cat.

Sarah Stevens painted this portrait of Sandy after the cat died. She wrote, "My heart is broken, dear little friend, good-bye, Sandy Stevens, 1903" on the back of this artwork.

Maine Historical Society

Fraternity Candidates - Delta Tau Delta pet lion cub, Cliff (1963)

Emory University Office of Alumni Publications Photographs

Child and Clifford embracing

A photograph of a young boy with face paint embracing someone dressed up as the children's book character Clifford the Big Red Dog.

Dover Public Library Institutional Archives

Dover Public Library

The Cemetery Lamb, [Sara_1.jpg]. Arizona Memory Project, accessed 28/03/2026, https://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/nodes/view/88058

The Pictures We Took - Aguila in Photographs