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Vintage Animal Photographer Harry Whittier Frees
Harry Whittier Frees (1879–1953) was an American photographer who created novelty postcards and children’s books based on his photographs of animals. He dressed the animals and posed them in human situations with props, often with captions. These were famously popular as postcards and posters at the turn of the century. The books and postcards are both highly collectible today.
These comical images are from his 1915 book, The Little Folks of Animal Land. He created images with animals, mostly kittens recreating everyday life scenarios. The images were titled:
- “Lily Bufkins Cuts a Wisdom Tooth”
- “Barker was Busy in the Kitchen”
- “Mrs. Bufkins Takes Barker’s Place”
- “Purra Plays a Joke on Prowler”
- “Mrs. Bufkins had a Busy Day”
- “Rosie was a patient model”
- “Prowler and Purra Try the Jam”
Unlike many of Frees contemporaries, he used live animals and not taxidermy. This allows guilt-free enjoyment of the pictures without the “yuck” factor of knowing that you are looking at something dead.
(via odditiesoflife)
A Victorian-era photograph of parents posing with their dead daughter. It was a custom in that era, before people could quickly travel great distances to attend funerals, to photograph the dead so their loved ones could see them as they were before burial.
— From Wikimedia Commons
Ummm…Oh.
Oh dear, Erin made a cat video.
Yes, I did!!
“There is a woman on the train wearing what I’m fairly confident is a stapler ring. Made me think of you since it’s oddly fashionable yet dangerous.”
Someone might accidentally take this guy home one day only to find this horror lying beneath.
That someone could be YOU.
Well, this is fucking odd.
Superman has officially renounced his US citizenship so he can have a global influence…
I mean, he knows that doing this won’t help me forget the fact that he keeps hanging out with that trollop, Lois Lane, right? And that French people hate capes*?
(*note: this may be the start of a delicious rumor)