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Sea Island Family

Date: 
Description: A family from Sea Island that participated in the Citizenship Group. Cats can be seen to the left and in the doorway.
Photograph

Ruth Stonehouse and her Cat, Leo

Date: 1920
Description: Original caption: "Ruth Stonehouse, one of the featured players in the all star cast of The Hope, the latest in Metro's series of pictures founded ...
Photograph

Mabel Taliaferro, an American Staffordshire Bull Terrier Puppy, and a Cat

Date: 1917
Description: Taliaferro sits in an overstuffed chair and holds her pets still for the photographer. Original caption: "Mabel Taliaferro, Metro Star, in the library ...
Photograph

Clara Kimball Young Holding a Black Cat

Date: 1915
Description: Heavily retouched seated portrait of the silent film star Clara Kimball Young with a black cat on her lap. Original caption: "Clara Kimball Young who w...
Painting

Milking Time

Date: 
Description: A farm family takes part in milking time. The mother carries a milk can and a stripping bucket while the boy pushes milk cans on a cart toward the barn. Th...
Photograph

Cat Aboard United Fruit Company Freighter

Date: 06 1942
Description: A cat is sitting atop a chalkboard with blackout orders written on it as a crew member from the United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa Marta fixes the sm...
Photograph

Adelaide Woods and Myrtle Stedman Scene Still

Date: 1916
Description: Mrs. Cleave (played by Adelaide Woods) and her adopted daughter Ruth (Myrtle Stedman) are seated for a meal in their humble home in a scene still for "The ...
Poster

"Čtyři pravdy" (Three Fables of Love) Film Poster

Date: 1965
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the French film "Les quatres vérités." Collage image of a black cat with green eyes. The cat is wearing a lace collar with ...
Historical Object

Christmas Album Page

Date: 1899
Description: An album page titled Christmas 1899 is decorated with watercolor painted figures. These include a sprig of mistletoe with two berries and the Fargo ...
Photograph

Mrs. Field and Kittens

Date: 09 02 1970
Description: A woman is sitting in a chair with three kittens on or near her lap. A number of home decorations and pieces of furniture are nearby, and a wooden church d...

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