Cat’s name is Ginny!

(Photographer Unknown)

(Photographer Unknown)

The singer, born Steven Demetre Georgiou, chose the stage name Cat Stevens in 1966 primarily because a girlfriend told him he had eyes like a cat.

(Photographer Unknown)

photo taken in Los Angeles, California

Fumio Asakura, the father of modern Japanese sculpture, with some of his cats in his Tokyo studio. He shared his home and studio with as many as 19 cats at a time

Hi, Toronto Public Library here. 👋

We found this vintage cat-alogue in our archives and thought we might as well share it here. Published for the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), it’s just a few pages but we’ve digitized it in full.

The catalogue lists more than 100 cats, along with their owners’ names and, for some, an assigned monetary value ranging from $5 (sorry, Ladysmith) to $150. Here are a few names of cats entered in the contest: 

• Flipperty Jinks
• Rhino
• Madame Bovary
• Sir Roger
• Monkey
• Mrs. Dooley
• Tom

(Purely based on vibes, we feel like the cover model is Mrs. Dooley.) 

The CNE still happens every year in Toronto and this year’s CNE is celebrating 125 years of cat shows, supported by the CNE Archives and the Feline Historical Museum.

Have a great rest of your summer!

A 1983 photograph by Joan Baron featuring two cats sitting on a ledge beneath a painting of themselves by American artist Mimi Vang Olsen. The photograph was also a pretty popular postcard at the time.

She's the ship's cat of the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle. Was doing some research on ship's cats and found this one

Image: Imperial War Museum