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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