Showing posts with label photos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photos. Show all posts

Tails from the past

Don't you just love looking at old photos? The hair styles - the clothing - the furniture - the expressions on the peoples faces ... And the best ones are the ones containing their pets!

I'm happy to have found an excellent website Vintage Tails, chock full of people with their four-legged pals. Many have descriptive, often humorous commentary, like the following:

"Yep, it was now a piddle skirt."



"The head transplant was successful."



Got a few hours to waste?

Shop cats

in a sweater store in Zermatt, Switzerland, by Julie Corsi

in a restaurant in Farfa, Lazio, IT, by MakeNmakE

in Khan el-Khalili bazaar in Cairo, by elsa11

in a diamond shop in Amsterdam, by kaylovesvintage

The Bay Window

Dunbar Gardens

Flutot's Camera Repair

(via KGRC)

Fandangle Beads

57Andrew

Old Scrolls Book Shop

West Seattle Blog has a series profiling “shop cats” who are fixtures at local businesses.

Let's look at old photos

Princess Margherita of Savoy-Genoa, aged 15 years, 1866; future Queen of Italy. (via)


State Library and Archives of Florida (via)

Very unusual to find an OLD photo with a cat, isn't it?

photographer: Békei Ödön - Budapest / Hungary 1896 -1908 - photo found at Flickr, from ggaabboo's collection.

Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Sisi) in hat and velvet coat trimmed with ermine. At her side her favorite dog, 'Shadow'. The photo was taken by Emil Rabending, ca. 1865. Postcard published by Postkartenverlag Donauland, Vienna, Austria, around 1900.

From the top down: Luke the dog, Buster Keaton, Al St John, & Roscoe Arbuckle.
(via)

found at flickr, from Antique Dog Photos (c. 1943)

Can you "eye"dentify this animal?

Can you name this species?

Test your wildlife identification skills and see how many species you can identify from a close-up of their eyes.

guardian.co.uk "Eye spy" quiz

Found on the web

Dog auctions: Where puppy millers do their dirty business
Envision rooms filled floor to ceiling with crates and cages each housing dogs whose sole purpose in life is to make puppies.

10 amazing camouflaged animals
Whether it's a gecko blending into bark, a jaguar fading into foliage or a Peringuey's viper sliding through sand, good camo can mean the difference between eating and being eaten.

World's Oldest Animal Life - 650,000,000 Years Old
Primitive ocean sponges discovered in Australia could be the worlds oldest animal body fossils.

The Cutest Interspecies Animal Friendships
These pictures will make your heart melt!