Cats, for humans
There is an inexplicable attraction
Your meme library
Are there a few cute cats?
Cat films are not exclusive to modern people's networks
Back in the 1870s
Just a photographer started
Take portrait photos of cats
Around 1880, photographer Berndt and his three cats
The photographer, harry Pointer, at first took common photos of cats sleeping in baskets or drinking milk, but around 1870 he began to add various props to his photos, and to capture specific poses of cats and add some humor to the pictures. He may have been one of the first accomplished pet cat photographers, and by 1884 Berndt had published more than 200 photographs in the album The Brighton Cats.
Two kittens pose on a decorated watering jar
Cat photographer
Two cats in baskets with a greeting of "Happy New Year" on the photo
A cat sits on a tricycle
Five o'clock Tea
A cat "rollerblading"
Skate in Brighton
Except for photographer Harry Berndt
In the era of black and white photographs, there were also many celebrities
He also recorded his good time with cats
Albert Schweitzer (French philosopher, musician, and doctor, winner of the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize) and his friends write at the table.
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A portrait of Mark Twain with a ceramic cat craft on his lap. Twain is a well-known cat lover, with more than 12 pet cats at its peak. One of his most famous remarks about cats is: "If a person can fellowship with a cat, that person will grow, but the cat will suffer." ”
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British rhythm blues singer Long John Baldry plays guitar at home with his pet cat on August 31, 1973, in the north part of London.
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One day in March 1951, British radio host Jack Jackson took his cat ,"Tiddles", to the studio to produce a show.
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In January 1989, actress Sandy Lee Sandy Dennis is in her kitchen, and these are just some of her cats.
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In 1990, Armando Acosta directed Romeo and Juliet, which also featured 120 wildcats from New York, Venice and Ghent, Belgium. The photo was taken at the home of director Acosta, who is sitting in front of the fireplace with his 4 pet cats.
In the lives of ordinary people
Cats are everywhere
The photographer's capture left a picture of people and animals living in harmony
It also created a lot of classic moments
The original caption of this photo was written on March 23, 1959: Cat World Star. A cat that can play the piano, a music-loving cat from Worcester Park in England, sings alongside his 15-year-old hostess, Marion Holland, when she plays the piano.
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In the setting sun, the farmer plays guitar on his porch, and his children and cat huddled in the doorway of the house in the fall of 1940, somewhere in Natchetosh, Louisiana.
图源：Marion Post Wolcott / Library of Congress
Crew members aboard the Royal Navy light cruiser HMS Hermione surround the ship's kitten Corvette, photographed somewhere in the Mediterranean in 1941.
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Considered a portrait of an "aristocratic style", taken in Sydney, 1906.
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In 1927, on the advertising page of a Paris newspaper, a local spectacle dispenser posted the advertisement, describing his cat sitting in the doorway after putting on his own sunglasses and refusing to take off his sunglasses in order to attract customers.
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In 1947, a woman in Utah insisted on using her pet cat to guide herself.
图源：The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
In the August 25, 1954 issue of Life magazine, a set of photographs of farm life in the home of farmer Arch Badertscher was circulated without warning and became a classic set of cat-themed photographic photographs.
Cats that live with people
Also unintentionally
Participating in various historical events of mankind
The cat is the mascot aboard the Australian light cruiser HMAS Encounter. Photographed during World War I, the cat is looking out from the muzzle of a 6-inch naval gun.
图源：Australian War Memorial
Photographed on September 5, 1951, during the Eastwood Pet Parade in New South Wales, Australia.
图源：Sam Hood / State Library of New South Wales
During the "Bombing of London" in World War II, a domestic cat was packed in a box.
In 1961, dozens of black cats and their owners lined up, waiting for each cat to audition for the movie Tales of Terror.
Alice Stacy, 91, with her pet cat Mischief and her pet dog Good Boy, dolce 25, 1988, in the town of Dolchester. At the time, her community was working on a relocation plan, with the vast majority of the 350 residents objecting, and Stacy fearing that the relocation would have to be separated from her pets.
Human love for cats
Even before the birth of photography
Whether black and white or color
Various cat slices:
Cute, funny, cute...
They are all valuable image assets
They are both a record of the cat itself
It is also a testimony to the feelings between people and cats
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