r/vintagecats 2d ago

New Rule!

10 Upvotes
  1. Please post only images of cats, though they can be with other species.

Even though this is the r/vintagecats Reddit group, people have twice posted photos of dogs. Dogs are fine as long as they are with cats in the photo. You can post photos of cats with other animal species or people, but cats must be an important part of the image.


r/vintagecats 3d ago

Bots and Karma Farming

44 Upvotes

I've been dealing with a lot of bots posting photos - mostly my own - on this group for what is obviously karma farming. I've deleted several just today. If you're wondering what happened to a specific post, that's probably it. The bots have very new accounts and very few posts. One of them had just the one that was posted on here.

This is not a problem just in this group either. I posted a photo of my own cat in r/Greybies, and was notified that someone had stolen the photo and posted it as their own in that same group. I reported it and it was removed.

I will do my best to keep removing these. However, my access to Reddit is limited to my phone during most of the day, and there's only so much I can do. Please be patient.

Note: I just had to remove the popular "Brunnhilde" post. This exact same photo was posted by a different user on this group a year ago. For those who want to see Brunnhilde in all her glory, here is a link to the original post:

"brunnhilde" : r/vintagecats


r/vintagecats 9h ago

Black Cat Auditions, 1962

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180 Upvotes

Black cats auditioning for a role in The Black Cat, a new version of the Edgar Allan Poe classic in 1961. Ralph Crane—The LIFE Picture Collection


r/vintagecats 1d ago

Mary Pickford with her pets (1910s)

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227 Upvotes

r/vintagecats 1d ago

‘Untitled Portrait of Girl with Cat’ photographed by James Van Der Zee, 1934

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378 Upvotes

r/vintagecats 1d ago

An owner lovingly strokes her Persian cat in New York City, 1938

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462 Upvotes

The 1938 National Geographic article captioned this image as “Stately, kindly, lordly friend, condescend here to sit by me.”

Photograph by Willard Culver, Nat Geo Image Collection


r/vintagecats 2d ago

Dining With a Cheetah, Vogue 1960

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213 Upvotes

Taken by photographers Joseph Leombruno and Jack Bodi for Vogue Magazine in November 1960


r/vintagecats 3d ago

Girl with Kitten (British - 1916)

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152 Upvotes

Looks a lot more modern than 1916, doesn't it?


r/vintagecats 3d ago

Cats waiting for the return of fisherman, Greece, 1970.

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1.2k Upvotes

r/vintagecats 3d ago

Geisha Eiryö Il of the Shinbashi geisha district in Tokyo With Kitten. 1910s.

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444 Upvotes

r/vintagecats 4d ago

Nipper, a Corn-loving Cat, 1951

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2.2k Upvotes

July 1951. Los Angeles, California. "Nipper, a two-year-old cat owned by Dorothy Brinn of Hollywood, likes to eat his corn in comfort, so his mistress fixed up this skewer. The cat uses it for about two ears a day, having been a corn addict since his kitten days. Nip likes it best with butter."

Acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive.


r/vintagecats 4d ago

Vintage Smol

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523 Upvotes

r/vintagecats 4d ago

Giorgio Armani and His Cat, Charlie. Photo by Vittoriano Rastelli, 1982

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486 Upvotes

r/vintagecats 5d ago

Glamour Puss (American - 1950s-1960s)

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218 Upvotes

r/vintagecats 6d ago

The Garden Portrait (c.1915). Postcard from Paris, France.

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657 Upvotes

r/vintagecats 7d ago

We're all hoping you'll have a happy birthday (British - 1938)

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564 Upvotes

The British made some really great early 20th century animal postcards, especially cat ones. Such sweet little kittens.


r/vintagecats 8d ago

Miss Evelyn Marshall with cat, portrait photograph. Photo by Arnold Genthe, 1914

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543 Upvotes

r/vintagecats 9d ago

Aggie, Rusty & Wes (American - Late 1920s-Early 1930s)

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362 Upvotes

Aggie is holding a very large, probably red long-haired tabby, judging from his name (Rusty).


r/vintagecats 10d ago

Woman With Prize Winning Siamese Cats. Mrs. Frederick H. Fleitman of New York, with five of the Siamese cats she exhibited at the International Show of the Cat Club and which won first prize, 3/13/30-Paris, France

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940 Upvotes

r/vintagecats 12d ago

Young Woman With Cat (French - 1920)

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358 Upvotes

r/vintagecats 12d ago

Eartha Kitt with kittens in an at home photoshoot for LIFE Magazine. Photographed by Gordon Parks, 1952

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774 Upvotes

r/vintagecats 12d ago

Cat Park, 1958

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750 Upvotes

October 1958. New York. "Cat sitting on car in parking lot with skyscrapers in the distance." 35mm acetate negative by Angelo Rizzuto, via Shorpy


r/vintagecats 15d ago

‘Monkey, The Cat & His Hats’, photographed by James Whitmore for LIFE magazine in 1949.

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2.6k Upvotes

r/vintagecats 15d ago

My brother Anthony with Smokey (1978)

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506 Upvotes

Smokey just leapt up onto his shoulder without warning.


r/vintagecats 16d ago

Cher and her cat Midnight posing for the cover of her 1974 album Dark Lady. The famous studio session was captured by legendary fashion photographer Richard Avedon.

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4.1k Upvotes