"A moggy lies resplendent in a pram"

What farking language is this?

Is it a coincidence that Google just paid a billion dollars for Instagram? I think not!

BronyMedic: you know what's pretty interesting from that era?

Funerary Photographs.

Even better, amusing cats posed on top of dead bodies.

My favourite is "Kitty Coroner".

i once saw a collection of reproductions framed and hanging in a doctors office. very old photography. each piece was a remake of classic art done with cats. each was very well done and highly amusing. from what i recall this was the first of its type and was a sensation in the day.

back then, people also took posed pictures of their recently deceased. Especially if a child died of illness, they would pose them liek they were still alive and take a photograph of them with the family so they'd have something to remember them by.

Thank goodness we got out of that tradition.

How hard must it have been to hold the cats in the pose for long enough to take a good photo back then. I'm impressed.

RKTeuthis: I'm dubious. IIRC, pictures took seconds to capture in 1870.

and unless the cats were taxidermied. . .

Anyone know otherwise?

Well, they fed children large quantities of "soothing syrup" made from opium poppies back in those days...

These cats look really mellow.

Pestifer: So, um, what makes you think all these cats are alive? Even people had to have special head-clamps to keep them still enough for the film of the time.....and he WAS contemporary with this guy (NSF-ASPCA/RSPCA) (new window)

Because they don't look stuffed but rather stoned?

emotion_lotion: Well, I think you had a lot more time on your hands in the 1870's

I disagree, just think about how much bullshiat you had to go through to accomplish simple tasks like: boiling water, heating a house, bathing, taking a shiat, commuting and cooking in general. I'd reckon we folks living in this glorious day in age (especially after the unions enforced the 8x8x8 living schedule) have much more free time. We just happen to use all that free time on Fark=/.

This would have been a good photoshop theme thread; "Vintage lolcats."