The Photographed Cat: Picturing Close Human-Feline Ties 1900-1940

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The Photographed Cat We gratefully acknowledge the generous contributions received to support publication of The Photographed Cat: Picturing Human–Feline Ties, 1890–1940. A l i c e R a n d e l P f e i f f e r Gifts in honor of Sa n d r a L . C a r r i e r L i l l i a n a n d S o p h i a B r a n g M i c h a e l a n d J u l i e S h a r k e y The Photographed • CAT• Picturing Human–Feline Ties, 1890–1940 Arnold Arluke and Lauren Rolfe Syracuse University Copyright © 2013 by Syracuse University Press Syracuse, New York 13244-5290 All Rights Reserved First Edition 2013 13 14 15 16 17 18 6 5 4 3 2 1 Unless otherwise indicated, photographs courtesy of the authors. ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. For a listing of books published and distributed by Syracuse University Press, visit our website at SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu. ISBN: 978-0-8156-1026-7 (cloth) 978-0-8156-5246-5 (e-book) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Arluke, Arnold. The photographed cat : picturing human-feline ties, 1890–1940 / Arnold Arluke and Lauren Rolfe. — First edition. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8156-1026-7 (paperback : alkaline paper) 1. Cats—Pictorial works. 2. Cats—History. 3. Cat owners—History. 4. Human–animal relationships—History. 5. Photography of animals—History. I. Rolfe, Lauren. II. Title. SF446.A75 2013 636.8—dc23 2013024766 Manufactured in the United States of America • For Delilah and Ginger • Ar no l d Ar l u ke (PhD, sociology, New York University ) is professor of sociology and anthropology at Northeastern University. He has published more than one hundred articles and eleven books, many of which examine contradictions in human–animal relationships, including Beauty and the Beast (2010, with Robert Bogdan), Inside Animal Hoarding (2009, with Celeste Killeen), Between the Species (2008, with Clinton Sanders ), Brute Force (2007), The Sacrifice (2006, with Lynda Birke and Mike Michael), Just a Dog (2006), and Regarding Animals (1996, with Clinton Sanders). His research has received awards from the American Sociological Association, the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, the International Association for Human– Animal Interaction Organizations, and the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. With Clinton Sanders, he also edits the Animals, Culture , and Society series for Temple University Press. Lau r e n Ro l f e (BA, political theory, Vassar College) is an avid collector of early-twentieth-century animal photographs. Over the past decade, she has amassed a private archive of more than a thousand real photo postcards, cabinet cards, stereoviews, and individual snapshots that depict human–animal relationships of all kinds. Although her collection is diverse, its principal focus is cats. ...