PieFedKitten with radio headphones, UK?, 1926
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JohnnyEnzyme
That looks like the work of photographer Harry Whittier Frees. More examples below:
My family used to have one or more picture books of his, I’m thinking maybe from 90-110yrs ago.
Even as a kid I found them slightly disturbing in the way the animals were posed. (were they even alive?) If in vivo, I hope they weren’t mistreated too much. A lot of those outfits look tight and overheating to me…
AllNewTypeFaceApparently a lot of Victorian photographs of kittens were of dead/taxidermied ones, as the film they had wasn’t fast enough to capture live kittens.
Sadly makes sense for the Victorian Age, altho I understand that by the 1910’s, short and instant exposures were available in several cameras.
Frees being a successful, popular photographer, I would tend to think he had access to the newer tech. That still leaves the issue of what state his animals were actually in. I almost don’t want to know.
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