
r/vintagecats

Three Farm Children with Cat and a Bicycle - Dorothea Lange, August 1939
This photo was officially cataloged as "Three of the four Arnold children, Michigan Hill". It features three of the four Arnold family's children: Hazel, Irving, Norma, and Charles, along with their pet cat. They resided in Michigan Hill, Thurston County, Washington. Like many of her Farm Security Administration (FSA) works, this image was intended to document rural living conditions. The original negatives and archival prints are preserved and accessible through the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.
Cats in Vogue, December 1955 Issue
This issue featured notable cat photography captured by the studio Leombruno-Bodi.
Resort news: black and white shoes
Puss in slippers, very clever cats, these, picking the news in resort shoes to step into...
Women and their cats lining the sidewalk early 1900s
Mrs. Hofstra, president of the Atlantic Cat Club, and her cat, Laddie Loupin, who had won the Best in Show award at the 1906 Madison Square Garden Cat Show. The photo was taken by American photojournalist Jessie Tarbox Beals
A Vintage Studio portrait of a girl with her Cat'1913
I found this photo of a young woman with a fabulous hat holding an orange tabby nearly 30 years ago, and still love it.
Sophie Calle, The Sleepers (Les dormeurs),1979
Gelatin silver print, MoMA, Floor 4, the David Geffen Galleries
Mr. Spock with Black Cat, 1968
Star Trek: The Original Series
Season 2, Episode 26 Assignment: Earth; March 1968
‘Smiling Girl Looking at Camera Surrounded by Three Grumpy Silver Persian Cats’, 21 August 1951
A photo of a cat taken in 1931. The same dissatisfaction that hasn't changed for a hundred years.
My mom with the siamese surrogate children they had before us kids
Mr Wiggles is one fancy gentleman cat (vintage photo, 1900)
Tabby Kittens - My Love and I (British - 1900s-1910s)
A cute little pair of tabbies. I buy a lot of these postcards from a pair of British sellers on etsy. They have some very nice and unusual postcards.
‘Soldier's goodbye & Bobbie the cat’, ca. 1939-1945, Sydney, Australia by photographer Sam Hood
My father with his mother's cat (December 1956)
She also had a dachshund and both pets figured in a lot of family photos from this period.