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“Purrfectly Timeless”: 108 Vintage Cat Photos To Celebrate Our Feline Friends

Say what you want but... retro cat pictures have definitely carved out their own niche within the broader spectrum of vintage photography, evoking a sense of nostalgia and charm that resonates with many people worldwide. These pictures capture a diverse array of cats from decades past, often shot in black and white or with a distinctive sepia tint, portraying felines lounging on vintage furniture, strutting across old cobblestone streets, or even napping in the warmth of a bygone-era kitchen.

So Pandas, scroll down below and see the best pictures we had gathered for yourself, and of course, don't forget to upvote your favorite ones!

#1 Waiting For Dinner

Image credits: Edna Walling

#2 My Grandmother And Her Cat. Late 1930 Or Early 1940, In Minnesota

Image credits: levimeirclancy

#3 A French Soldier Feeding His Kitten, Indochina 1956

Image credits: Lux

#4 Dan Flynn And His Cats, Labre Park, 1967

Image credits: Alen MacWeeney

#5 Surprising Friendship. Minnie Cat And Mike White Mouse In A Tender Attitude

Image credits: Acme Newspicture

#6 "Show Off" Cat. April 1955

Image credits: State Library of NSW

#7 My Mom Milking One Of The Cows, Directly Feeding The Cats In The Early 1960s

Image credits: ImAGirafffeAMA

#8 Kittens Crawling On The Bucks County, Pennsylvania Representative Peter Kostmayer In His Congressional Office In 1991

Image credits: Jamie Howren

#9 Casting Call For Black Cats To Star In Roger Corman Movie In Los Angeles, California, 1961

Image credits: Los Angeles Times

#10 This Photo Was Taken In Cleveland, Ohio, Circa Early 1900. A Cute Kid, Dog, And A Cat Who Knows He's The Boss

Image credits: memorylanepr

#11 The Payro Family Cat Directs A Portrait Of The Payro Children. Wakefield, Massachusetts, 1909

Image credits: Joseph C. Payro

#12 Cat Eating An Ice Cream In 1940

Image credits: State Library of NSW

#13 Walt Disney With His Cat And Mickey Mouse Drawing

Image credits: Harris & Ewing

#14 My Great Grandfather In The 1950s, Who Like Me Loved Cats

Image credits: Master_Shake23

#15 Jacques Lehmann Painting His Cat

Image credits: Thérèse Bonney

#16 "Salty" Mascot Of The San Diego Coast Guard Air Station, Introduced Her Kittens To The Dramatic Side Of The Sea-Serve Life Early

Image credits: National Archives

#17 A Patron Of "Sammy's Bowery Follies," A Downtown Bar, Sleeping At His Table While The Resident Cat Laps At His Beer

Image credits: National Archives

#18 Salty And Her Two Kittens Aboard A Coast Guard Plane Piloted By Spar Kay Martin As They Flew To Rescue A Downed Navy Pilot

Image credits: National Archives

#19 Original Advertisement For An Optician On Boulevard St. Germain, 1925

Image credits: Rol Agency

#20 The Ship's Cats Having A Hammock To Themselves

Image credits: George Silk

#21 World War II – Iwo Jima

Image credits: National Archives

#22 Cat On Shoe Shine Stand On The Sidewalk

Image credits: Angelo Rizzuto

#23 Miss C. Bateman With Her Little Family Of Siamese Cats, At The Cat Show, Crystal Palace

Image credits: Planet News

#24 John B. Moissant's Cat

Image credits: Bain News Service

#25 Three Kittens Wearing Pajamas

Image credits: Harry Whittier Frees

#26 Coast Guardsman Henry Richmond Jr. Holding "Camouflage" The Cat Mascot Of His Coast Guard-Manned Landing Ship

Image credits: National Archives

#27 Melvin Vaniman And Kiddo, The Cat That Would Survive An Airship Crash. 1910

Image credits: Bain News Service, P. M. Vaniman

#28 Film Artist Jeannette Mac Donald With Her Cat Pussums In A Film

Image credits: Planet News

#29 Siamese Cats In An Exhibition In England

Image credits: Agence Rol

#30 Original Advertisement For An Optician On Boulevard Saint-Germain. Cats Wearing Glasses

Image credits: Agence Rol

#31 The British Shorthair S.H. III, Who Was Featured In Advertisements For "Fancy Feast" Cat Food, Lounges On A Director's Chair

Image credits: Steve Grayson

#32 Cat Looking Into A Radio Speaker, 1926

Image credits: Library of Congress

#33 Kittens

Image credits: Harris & Ewing

#34 Dancer Elizabeth Duncan With A Cat

Image credits: Arnold Genthe

#35 The Kitten Named Midnight Fills The Hands Of Coast Guardsman Elmer T. Barnes, Seaman First Class

Most Coast Guard fighting ships have a dog holding down the important duty of mascot, but there is one Destroyer Escort playing European combat waters which has a small, frisky, black kitten ruling the foc's'le.

Image credits: National Archives

#36 Mrs. Marcelle Adam, President Of The Cat Club De France And Blue Persian In 1926

Image credits: Agence Rol

#37 Beautiful Cat In A Cat Show, Salle Wagram

Image credits: Agence de presse Mondial Photo-Presse

#38 Cat In The Opening Of A Cannon

Image credits: Agence Rol

#39 Australia's Most Remarkable Cat, 1940

Image credits: State Library of NSW

#40 Cat Fancier Phil Morini And His Cats

Image credits: Los Angeles Public Library

#41 My Awesome Childhood Cat With My Childhood Computer In The Mid-1990s

Image credits: LightspeedBalloon

#42 Portrait Of Miele Van Kerckhoff With A Cat In 1890s

Image credits: Henry Herman van den Berg

#43 A Cat Called Aircrew. The Mascot Of A Royal Australian Air Force

Image credits: Herald Newspaper

#44 Benjamin Fink Holding The White House Cat Tiger Referred To As "Tige"

Image credits: Library of Congress

#45 Washington Cat Show At Wardman Park Hotel In 1920

Image credits: Library of Congress

#46 Alma Hanlon With Kittens

Image credits: Bain News Service

#47 1926 Cat Show In The Wagram Room Organized By Mrs. Marcelle Adam, President Of The French Cat Club

Image credits: Rol Agency

#48 Ballet Dancer Seija Silfverberg And Riku The Cat In 1982

Image credits: Hautala Kari

#49 A Cat Yawns On The Stairs In The Summer Of 1931

Image credits: JOKA Journalistic photo archive Otava

#50 My Mother And Her Two Sisters After Pulling A Cat Out Of The Potomac River In The Early Seventies

Image credits: gifpol

#51 Coast Guard Officers Rescued A Frightened, Half-Starved Kitten From A Shell-Smashed Jap Pill-Box. They Brought Her Aboard And Named Her Tarawa

Image credits: National Archives

#52 This Tiger Kitten Was Given To A Group Of Coast Guardsmen By Children At Salerno. She Was Adopted, Proclaimed Mascot For A Coast Guard-Manned LST, And Christened "Dee-Day"

Image credits: Department of Transportation. U.S. Coast Guard

#53 Little Cats On A Birdcage, 1932

Image credits: Planet News

#54 Ship's Mascots On HMAS Sydney 1940

Image credits: Australian War Memorial collection

#55 A Cat Wearing A Ford's My Man Sign At A Campaign Rally For President Gerald R. Ford, October 13, 1976

Image credits: National Archives

#56 Cat Show In 1935

Image credits: Agence de presse Meurisse

#57 Curious Tom

Image credits: Harris & Ewing

#58 Kitten With Arched Back

Image credits: Theodor Horydczak

#59 Von Karlowski Cat

Image credits: Arnold Genthe

#60 Ethel Knox With 12 Newborn Kittens, Los Angeles, 1935

Image credits: Los Angeles Times

#61 Dawn Rodgers Officiates At A "Wedding" Of Formally Attired Felines Tigger And Kirby, Held By Daughters Summer And September

Image credits: James Ruebsamen

#62 Puzzums Was One Of The Greatest Feline Actor Stars Of The Late 1920s

Image credits: Los Angeles Public Library

#63 Cat Refuses To Grow

Image credits: Los Angeles Public Library

#64 Portrait Of Sam Donahue And Hep, New York, 1946

Image credits: William P. Gottlieb

#65 Ship's HMAS Kanimbla Cat

Image credits: The Australian War Memorial

#66 Cat And Kitten Sleeping On A Stringed Chair

Image credits: Max Dupain

#67 Kittens Playing With A Chicken In 1949

Image credits: State Library of NSW

#68 White House Persian Cat. 1929 March 29

Image credits: Library of Congress

#69 Mid 1970s. My Sister And I, With Our Cat Tigger

Image credits: Eagle1388

#70 Homeless Kitten On The Ashes Of The City Of Zhizdra, Kaluga Region

Image credits: Mikhail Savin

#71 Cats In 1923

Image credits: Harris & Ewing

#72 Aviator John B. Moisant With His Feline Frequent Flying Companion Mademoiselle Fifi In 1911

Image credits: Library of Congress

#73 Woman Holding Her Cat In 1927

Image credits: Library of Congress

#74 Cat Sitting On A Car With Skyscrapers In The Distance. 1958

Image credits: Angelo Rizzuto

#75 Blackie And Tiger, Two Of The Cats Owned By President Calvin Coolidge

Image credits: Harris & Ewing

#76 A Cat And Her Kittens Are Playing On The Steps Of The House

Image credits: EVERY Journalistic photo archive Itä-Häme

#77 A Kitten In 1925

Image credits: Library of Congress

#78 Aboard The Coast Guard-Manned LST, "Kodiak," The Dog From The Alaska Waterfront, And "Tarawa," The Cat From A Tarawa Pillbox, Just Don't Get Along

Image credits: National Archives

#79 Turlock, California. Housewife With Her Pet Cat, 1942

Image credits: Russell Lee

#80 China Grove Coast Guardsman On Atlantic Convoy Duty

Coast Guardsman Albert R. McNeely, chief electrician's mate, of China Grove, N.C., puts the ship's mascot to bed in a battle helmet aboard a Coast Guard-manned destroyer escort. The sea-going kitten is a veteran of several Atlantic crossings aboard the sleek escort ship which safeguards the passage of troops and supplies bound for the Battle of Germany.

Image credits: Department of Transportation. U.S. Coast Guard

#81 Cat Show In The Wagram Room, Organized By Mrs. Marcelle Adam, President Of The Cat Club De France

Image credits: Agence Rol

#82 Cat Show Siamese, 1927

Image credits: Agence Rol

#83 This Kitty Belonged To The Sultan Of Turkey

Mrs. Martin K. Metcalf, wife of commander Metcalf, holding Pansy. A Turkish cat formerly did her "Meowing" in the palace of the sultan of Turkey. The cat was brought to Washington from Turkey by a commander Metcalf.

Image credits: Harris & Ewing

#84 Cat Sitting On Top Of The Boxes

Image credits: Angelo Rizzuto

#85 Frances Benjamin Johnston's Cats, Herman, And Vermin. New Orleans, Louisiana

Image credits: Frances Benjamin Johnston

#86 Kitten With A Camera

Image credits: State Library of NSW

#87 Calico Cat Capers With Parakeet Pal

Image credits: Dean Gordon

#88 Feeding Cats 1934

Image credits: Harris & Ewing

#89 A Cat In 1959

Image credits: Angelo Rizzuto

#90 Capitol Cats

Image credits: Library of Congress

#91 Vernon County, Wisconsin. Edward Saugstad Feeding A Kitten Milk

Image credits: Arthur Rothstein

#92 My Grandfather With His Cat In The 1970s, Toronto

Image credits: JunctionJay21

#93 Woman And A Cat

Image credits: C.M. Bell

#94 Portrait Of Buzzer The Cat

Image credits: Arnold Genthe

#95 Two Cats Facing Camera

Image credits: Angelo Rizzuto

#96 Two Cats On A Table In The Early 1900s

Image credits: Hendrik Doejer

#97 My Mom And Her Cat In The Late 1930s

Image credits: Wienerwrld

#98 A Man And Woman Having Tea On The Veranda Of Their Mt. Nutt Home At Bowen In The Early 1900s

Image credits: State Library of Queensland

#99 Study Of A Cat. A Close-Up Portrait Of A Cat, Possibly One Of The Cats That Arnold Genthe Called Buzzer

Image credits: Arnold Genthe

#100 The Cat In 1916

Image credits: Frank Eugene

#101 Schermerhorn Cat

Image credits: Arnold Genthe

#102 The Ship's HMAS Toowoomba Cat Digger

Image credits: Norman Smith

#103 United States President Calvin Coolidge Holding A Kitty At His Family Farm In Plymouth Notch, Vermont, 1924

Image credits: Bain News Service

#104 Annie Edson Taylor Poses With Her Cat In 1902

Image credits: Bain News Service

#105 Actress Ann Murdock With Cat Buzzer

Image credits: Arnold Genthe

#106 Portrait Of An Actress Lili Darvas Holding A Cat Ginger

Image credits: Carl Van Vechten

#107 Blackie And Tiger

Image credits: Calvin Coolidge

#108 Two Actresses, Each Holding A Small Kitten. A Scene From "These Children"

Image credits: Sam Hood



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