#historical cats

[sjbattleangel]

Trixie the cat from the portrait of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton. 1603. Attributed to John de Critz. Source

@catsofyore

#cat #cats #kitty #kitten #kittens #kitties #cats of yore #catsofyore #cats of history #catsofhistory #historical cats #17th century #17th century art #cats throughout history #cats in history #i love cats #i love all cats #hairy babies #fluffy angels

[statelibraryqueensland]

Continuing on in the long and time-honoured tradition of ‘cats being extremely confident in places they shouldn’t be’: meet the mascot cat of the H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth. 

It was incredibly common for Naval vessels to have their own shipboard mascots in the form of cats, who offered the dual services of pest control below decks and morale and entertainment for the crew. Shipboard cats often had their own unofficial cat-sized hammocks and uniforms made for them, and they provided well-needed lightness to news reels throughout the turbulent years of World War One. 

Here, one such cat can be seen parading along one of the 15 inch guns that made up this warship’s arsenal. Though her name is unknown, her pizzazz is immortalised in our collections.  (SOURCE)

#cats #wartime #world war one #cats history #cat #funny #humorous #history #library #interesting #interesting history #historical photos #historical cats #did you know #pet #history of pets #queen elizabeth #warship #navy #Australia #libraries #librarian #support your library #silly cats #silly #booklr #humor #australian

[beauteousthings]

Brünnhilde, 1936

#glorious #brunnhilde #cats #warrior cats #cats of tumblr #cat #epic cats #romantic cats #cats in costumes #cute cats #cats in hats #historical cats

[catpartyletsgo]

Herman the Coast Guard Cat

The WWII Coast Guard at the port of Baltimore decided they needed a mouser aboard their navy vessel, and soon found Herman, known as an “expert mouser” and hired him to keep the ship free of mice and rats. Herman then officially became a member of the U.S. Armed Forces at eight months old. “It is a good thing to get rid of rats in general,” Col. Richard P. Strong, Medical Corps, United States…

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#baltimore history #coast guard history #Historical Animals #historical cats #mouser #WWII CAT #wwii history

[fancyscrams]

Women's Suffrage postcard, found via Cats of Yore.

#historical cats #women's suffrage #graphic design #photography

[zoologica42]

Ah, Cats.

#museum specimes #natural history museum #historical cats #yellow rail #bad taxidermy

[yesterdaysprint]

The Little Witch of the Plain by Mrs. Percy Dearmer, 1897

#1890s #artwork #victorian #illustration #cats #animals #history #historic #vintage #1897

[ladylucck]

mosque cats x

#cats #mosques #mosque #cairo #historical architecture #cats of tumblr

[geezerwench]

Cats: walking all over our shit for 4000 years.

#cats #historical cats #ancient cats

[ministarfruit]

day 18: once upon a time ♡

(femslashfeb prompt list)

#minifemslashfeb2024 #ace attorney #tgaa #dgs #susahao #susarei #susato mikotoba #haori murasame #rei membami #they were supposed to be ghosts but then I decided #you can interpret it however you wish ^_^ #would've gotten this done earlier but my cat was sitting on my tablet #was a real dire situation please be understanding #all jokes aside it always makes me think of historical sapphics #when I think about these two like #just imagining not being able to be open about sexuality due to time period and such #like obv it's a present issue too but man. #thinking about how it was back then... #you know that sappho quote #'someone will remember us I say even in another time'

[juniper-clan]

Moon 16: Mystery Kittypet…

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#warrior cats #clangen #clangen warrior cats #warriors oc #wc oc #wc #jcmoons #if you were in the east coast near historic sites you know these damn fences #weird ass wood fences #also I hope this starts to explain the milk for the kits #who is this cat..... #hmmm…. #sorry this is late I’m very tired lol #I realize this is in the queue for Tuesday not Wednesday lol oh well

[rosered-schneeweisschens-sis]

can’t currently afford the print copy of the fabulous @lackadaisycats work?

maybe your local library will buy it in the meantime! hand for scale.

reading a hard copy of what I found years ago on the internet is cool in its own right, but the over 20 pages of bonus content are what’s really tempting.

note about the back cover: this is what was facing out as I carried the book in my arm out of the library and into the streets. certainly didn’t make me look like a psycho I’m sure.

#cheers #lackadaisy #lackadaisy comic #lackadaisy cats #tracy j butler #iron circus comics #good art #good books #graphic novel #webcomic #public libraries #library books #library #books & libraries #support artists #1920s #historical fiction #anthromorphic #writeblr #artblr #booklr

[statelibraryqueensland]

Fluffy friend of the week <3 

From Portrait of a woman from the Scott Family, Hornet Bank Station, Queensland.

High res image here: LINK

#cat #cat cat cat #kitty cat #fluffy #cute #cute animal #tabby cat #cat meme #historical cats #pet #what a sweet little creature #creatcher #history #queensland history #historical #photo #old photo #antique #vintage #1890s #1900s

[unproduciblesmackdown]

Lackadaisy Enrichment

#in our enclosures!! #video linked as source; which i'm glad to see already has a million views and is trending. That's Right #lackadaisy #WHICH i have been reading since at least '07 when i was thirteen my god b/c this animation is based on the ongoing webcomic #like does its influence show up Directly in some Discrete way i can point to in my art? not very easily probably. And Yet. #the inspiration....i wasn't able to be Regularly Only for at least another year / art done Nonprofessionally Online was novel to me #like wow ppl can make & post fanart of w/e they love huh....didn't know webcomics were a thing & i never really read that many since but. #good god the quality of Lackadaisy at its onset is like this is superb?? this person putting in all their talent and effort??? #and Then you get years & years more art and i don't even know what superlatives to throw out abt its quality as it evolves. obsessed w/it.. #if i see a new lackadaisy comic page i Will be acting out. obviously this animation is a delight & also stunning. and fascinating to also #juxtapose as a Translation / Interpretation of the comic in a different medium & standalone snippet of Story #and that we're not even quite there in the comic timeline; Taking Notes abt character info we get distilledly here....genuinely love like #take it back to '07 i'm like oh boy can't wait for the dream team to assemble. then a decade later when it did? Oh Boy. that is payoff lol #namely hooray for stitches and mudbug at the field office for every passing gangster. killing one marigold associate but not the other #which seems like a promising start to shootouts w/the other dream team triumvirate. i adore that in canon so far mordecai freckle & rocky #have met but only over a nice brunch. re: all intentions anyways. anyways i'm like Gifs Must Be Made while i'm also so riled afresh abt the #comic that i've been sooo hype for for over fifteen yrs now babeyyy Deservedly. i've done a couple of rereads & ought to do another.... #For Interest it'd probably take a few sittings to catch up from the start but there is much to be engaged over....this ongoing story that's #historical fiction prohibition bootlegging cats with plenty of focus on characters & several Mysteries. which i'm better at parsing now lol #like one of the more recent rereads like Oh Of Course x (probably) accidentally killed his y & z took the fall & that's a binding secret... #Not [oh of course] abt the circumstances surrounding a's death & how b & c were involved. nor the ''what's marigold's damage'' mystery #which is great. love to not know things. love that we can readily follow all the emergent drama everyone's wading in nowadays. hell yeah #anyways admire my organized approach to gifs here. four shots each Expressions Atmosphere Action Groupshots #sure might've muddled through gifmaking for this anyways but fr being a huge lackadaisy comic enjoyer for now most of my life helps #and its very Overall Inspiration like. just really getting the [you can really just draw stuff out here] going. fr the art's detail & skill #and that enrichment like i'm gonna have a great time following this. And I Have #you don't expect a crowdfunded indie animation in the mix back then but hell yeah fellas #SIGH ok removing a 4th gif that's broken / not displayed despite reuploading then entirely remaking it. if it's a bug i'll try again later

[catpartyletsgo]

Mrs. Chippy - Antarctic Explorer Cat

At this point, we all know about Ernest Shackleton and his Antarctic expeditions, right? Did you also know there was a VIK (very important kitty) aboard the Endurance? In 1915, Shackleton and his crew set sail to Antarctica. One of the crewmembers, Scottish shipwright and carpenter Harry ‘Chippy’ McNish (chippy being a colloquial British term for a carpenter), brought his cat with him. Chippy…

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#antarctica #chippy mcnish #endurance #ernest shackleton #famous cats #Historical Animals #historical cats #mrs chippy #shackleton

[odetopictorialism]

Unattributed • Francesca Woodman in her dorm room at Abbot Academy, Andover, MA, c. 1972

#historical images #i love cats #1970's