Turns Out People Have Been Sharing Cat Photos For Over a Century
Montage of eight photographs of cats, ca. 1903-1928 from Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute. Part of a larger collection taken by photographer Jessie Tarbox Beals.
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The above montage of eight photographs of cats, ca. 1903-1928, is part of a larger collection from the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, part of Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute. The photos are the work of photographer Jessie Tarbox Beals, pictured below.
Something tells me she would’ve really been into Tumblr:
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