A black cat sits on a garden wall looking out over the neighbourhood and the photographer. The picture is in black and white.
Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1988
NEIGHBOURHOOD CAT
A photo of Bruce from Linda Hall Library and myself, looking at. rare books spread out on a table.
The frontispiece of Edward Topsell's "The History of Four-footed Beasts" (1607), with an engraving of a strange, scaled cow-like creature.
A page from Edward Topsell's "The History of Four-footed Beasts" (1607), showing a grumpy-looking animal labelled as a "cat."
It was a treat to see some of the items in the rare book collection at the Linda Hall Library in KC last month. Here's Bruce showing me a first edition of Galileo's Siderius Nuncius; also, here's Edward Topsell's "The History of Four-footed Beasts" (1607). #books #science #histsci
A black‑and‑white photo of a seated woman next to a window, holding up a cat that is trying to get down. The woman faces the camera and laughs uncomfortably.
1960, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Photo by Cock Tholens
If a cat doesn’t want to be lifted, a cat doesn’t want to be lifted.
Iran...
A cat and a rabbit are lying close together and seem very content.
HAPPY EASTER!
Cat Bella and bunny Poppy, in 2017 in The Dodo daily
A black-and-white picture of two cats - one big, one small - on a table. Behind the shadow of a big window. City archives Amsterdam
CAT “BOSS” AND HER CHILD, who lived in an Amsterdam hospital. Photo found in an album of hospital staff, late 19th, early 20th century.
デッキの縁に座り、目を閉じて静かに佇むトラ猫のモノクロ写真。 Black-and-white photo of a tabby cat sitting on a wooden ledge with eyes closed, calm and still.
修行中
（鳥取市滝山｜アーカイブ）
Training Day
(Takiyama, Tottori City | Archive)
#猫モノクローム写真 #MonochromeMeow
Black‑and‑white photo of a cat high up in a bare winter tree, higher than the rooftop of a house. The firefighters’ ladder is already approaching.
The slightly overweight cat runs down the firefighter’s ladder, relieved.
A tortie cat sits high up in a tree, looking down angrily.
The tortie is rescued by a firefighter — she has climbed even higher, meows loudly, and resists the help.” (Archive Gelderland, Newspaper Brabants Dagblad).
A cat stuck in a tree (in 1980) waits patiently for the firefighters and casually walks down the rescue ladder. Another (in 2024) protested loudly the entire time, climbing higher and higher whenever her rescuers got close. Clinging to a wobbly top branch, she was finally caught and rescued.
Black and white photo of a smiling white woman sitting outside on a sunny house stoop, wearing a cast and sling on her right arm and cervical collar. A happy little shorthaired black cat rubs up beside her.
I don’t know the story here but my best guess is “tripped over the cat going down stairs in the dark but still love him”. Photo from my collection, 1958.
Gorgeous!
Edward Gorey, Cape Cod, Massachusetts in 1992. Via the Richard Avedon Foundation.
In this black and white photo, a cat sits perches on a mans shoulders. The man is wearing black and hat a white beard.
Edward Gorey drew cats constantly in his illustrated books as companions to his characters. His cats were typically small, black, and observant. Gorey personally owned multiple cats throughout his life. He once said he always had at least one, and at times had seven living in his Cape Cod home.
On the porch of a farm, a black cat makes sure ‘her’ fox pups get enough to eat; she also drinks some milk. One pup is fully visible, while the other hides beneath the cat’s body. Of the farmer only the shadow is visible
Library of Congress, US
Photo taken in 1915, titled:
“FOX PUPS RAISED BY CAT”
セピア調の写真。木の縁に前足をかけ、目を閉じて静かに佇む猫の横顔。背景は柔らかくぼけている。 Sepia-toned photo of a cat resting its paws on a wooden edge, eyes closed in quiet stillness, with a softly blurred background.
瞑想
（鳥取市滝山｜アーカイブ）
Meditation
(Takiyama, Tottori City | Archive)
#静かな時間 #QuietMoments
Black‑and‑white photograph of a cat walking among the legs of undressed mannequins, its front paws resting on a typical 1920s-30s plaster mannequin head.
1930s fashion police, feline division
🎨 《仕女圖軸》五代 週文矩
In Chinese #folklore, Wu Zetian, the only woman in Chinese history to claim the imperial throne, once cherished palace cats. But after having Empress Wang and Consort Xiao executed, she was cursed with chilling words: “May I be reborn a cat, and you a mouse, so I may 1/2
#caturday
In the foreground a boy sits with his black and white cat in his arms cat on the train. Next to him a woman and her two children a. Collection From the National Archive, The Netherlands.
A young girl and her cat are brought to safety by a ship. The photo shows the girl in a warm coat partly covered by blankets holding the cat. Archive Het Geheugen, The Netherlands.
A dark-haired boy with a worried look on his face holds his black and white cat in his arms. Behind him stands an official. He and his cat arrived safely in Rotterdam. National Archive, The Netherlands
The photo shows a man with a cat and a suitcase standing in high water. Behind him a flooded house. National Archive, The Netherlands.
73 years ago, in February 1953, a storm claimed 1800 lives when Dutch dykes gave way, causing massive floods. The photos show refugees taking their cats, including the first one, of a boy—a newspaper read—‘stiffly clutching his kitten, which he did not want to leave behind.’
Archive cat at the Archives Nationales in Dakar.
A small cat walks away, tail held high, its long shadow stretching across the street
Harvard Art Museums
Photo: 1940s-1950s, by Lyonel Feininge
Harvard cat has seen enough and turns her back
雪の積もる場所で、目を細めて笑顔の猫。モノクロ写真。 A smile cat squints in a snowy spot.
ご機嫌の朝
（鳥取市滝山｜アーカイブ）
A cheerful morning
(Takiyama, Tottori City | Archive)
#笑顔 #Smile
A black and white cat
A black and white cat
A man in a black and white suit, with a white cat on his lap.
M.C. Escher, famed for interlocking fish, birds and reptiles, was also a devoted cat lover. In 1919 he left architecture for graphic arts, mastering wood‑ and linocuts. His landlady gave him a white cat, his constant companion and muse, featured in a woodcut.
From the book 'How the Amazon Queen Fought the Prince of Egypt' Art by Tamara Bower March 22, 2005 40 pages Watercolor and Gouache
From the book
'How the Amazon Queen Fought the Prince of Egypt'
Art by Tamara Bower
March 22, 2005
40 pages
Watercolor and Gouache
Her archive of cat related art is unrivaled.
I thank her very much for everything she does.
#MenWithCats
All photos from University of Minnesota Library archives
📷 c. Minnesota-born Wanda Gag with one of her cats at her country home
📷 c. 1940 - 1960, Central Cooperative Wholesalee mill
📷 1940, Ystava the cat, mascot of the LA Finnish Workers Club, CA
In this black and white photo, a woman in a printed dress, seated on a chair, holds a black cat.
In this black and white photo, a cat sits atop a full sack.
This black and white photo shows a cat sitting. He or she appears to be staring directly into the camera.
A few brave and strong cats from the archives of the University of Minnesota.
Cat Distracts Sailors and Royal Marines on HMS King George V during World War I. #History #WorldWar1 #WW1 #Cat #Caturday #CatsInHistory #FirstWorldWar #RoyalNavy #RoyalNavyHistory #MaritimeHistory #NavyHistory #Photograph
A couple, whose faces are only partly visible, hold up a surprised-looking black cat between them.
Art Institute Chicago, 1950-1955, photo by Ed van der Elsken
For all the black cats (and the people who have loved them)
A stray cat, looking straight at the photographer with a fierce stare, is walking behind the bars in front of a window, while its reflection in the window looks like a black cat. The image is in black and white, and it is a scan of an analog print
From the analog print archive: have a stray cat #caturday
#CatsOfMastodon #FediCats
Cat Monet, black with quite a lot of white bits (face, belly, paws), lies on the edge of a table (covered by a Persian rug). Behind the cat a man with an 80s hairdo, smoking and with a glass of beer in front of him, seems to be talking to someone who is not in the picture. In the background there are records and a record player.
Archive Breda, photographed by Johan van Gurp, 1985
Another lazy weekend for cat Monet
This vintage 1913 French postcard features a black cat resting in a bed, with the caption "Porte Veine," meaning "bringer of luck." At the time, black cats were linked to superstition, so the card playfully presents the cat as a symbol of good fortune.
via History Cool Kids
