1. The little cat in the bottom right-hand corner is as confused as we are by this truly bizarre Halloween card from 1908 that features two pumpkins smooching. The card - currently in our Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection - concludes our month of Halloween-related Caturdays with a big dose of weirdness (see Halloween Caturdays one, two, and three). The snuggling squash card was originally sent on Oct. 28, 1908 to East 166th Street in NYC. Happy Halloween, happy Caturday and happy October!

    The little cat in the bottom right-hand corner is as confused as we are by this truly bizarre Halloween card from 1908 that features two pumpkins smooching. The card - currently in our Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection - concludes our month of Halloween-related Caturdays with a big dose of weirdness (see Halloween Caturdays one, two, and three). The snuggling squash card was originally sent on Oct. 28, 1908 to East 166th Street in NYC. Happy Halloween, happy Caturday and happy October!

  2. The Halloween-related Caturdays continue for the month of October! This cute card shows a little girl bobbing for apples next to her loyal kitty companion with the words “Halloween Pleasures.” The undated card then states, “Bobbing. Bobbing everywhere. Apples in a tub.” OK, it’s not exactly Sir Walter Raleigh, but it’s cute. The postcard is in our Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection (as were the images used for Halloween Caturdays one and two). Happy Caturday!

    The Halloween-related Caturdays continue for the month of October! This cute card shows a little girl bobbing for apples next to her loyal kitty companion with the words “Halloween Pleasures.” The undated card then states, “Bobbing. Bobbing everywhere. Apples in a tub.” OK, it’s not exactly Sir Walter Raleigh, but it’s cute. The postcard is in our Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection (as were the images used for Halloween Caturdays one and two). Happy Caturday!

  3. We are continuing Halloween-related Caturdays this October (see last week’s creepy kitty) with this photo of a flying feline on the back of a witch’s broomstick. This postcard from 1910 is in our Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection, and was originally sent to “Miss. A. Anderson” in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Happy Caturday!

    We are continuing Halloween-related Caturdays this October (see last week’s creepy kitty) with this photo of a flying feline on the back of a witch’s broomstick. This postcard from 1910 is in our Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection, and was originally sent to “Miss. A. Anderson” in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Happy Caturday!

  4. We thought it would be simply purrrrfect to share some of the Library’s hair-raising Halloween-related cat images on Caturdays throughout the month of October. So here’s the first one - an 1894 print from The Picture Magazine of a witch and her black cat. It’s currently in our Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection. Happy October, and happy Caturday!

    We thought it would be simply purrrrfect to share some of the Library’s hair-raising Halloween-related cat images on Caturdays throughout the month of October. So here’s the first one - an 1894 print from The Picture Magazine of a witch and her black cat. It’s currently in our Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection. Happy October, and happy Caturday!

  5. Got milk? Specifically, Nestle’s Swiss Milk? Apparently, according to this ad from between 1893 and 1924 and currently in in the Library’s Art and Architecture Collection, it’s very important for cats to have it, because it makes them “sound in limb and brain.” Actually, a while back, we posted the prequel to this ad, in which the brown cat had been drinking - gasp - skim milk instead, and looked rather, well, not sound in limb and brain. His friend set him straight, though, and now they’re both fat with coats like silk. A happy ending for a happy Caturday!

    Got milk? Specifically, Nestle’s Swiss Milk? Apparently, according to this ad from between 1893 and 1924 and currently in in the Library’s Art and Architecture Collection, it’s very important for cats to have it, because it makes them “sound in limb and brain.” Actually, a while back, we posted the prequel to this ad, in which the brown cat had been drinking - gasp - skim milk instead, and looked rather, well, not sound in limb and brain. His friend set him straight, though, and now they’re both fat with coats like silk. A happy ending for a happy Caturday!

  6. This week’s Caturday should bring back some “memories.” This 1982 photograph of performer Christine Langner is from the Broadway run of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats” (one of the longest running Broadway shows in history), and was taken by legendary theater and film photographer Martha Swope. The image is currently located in the incredible Martha Swope Collection at our Library for the Performing Arts (LPA) - a collection highlighted this week in an amazing NY Times profile of Swope (which includes an online slideshow of images), and that is starring in a new (of course, free) exhibition at LPA called Martha Swope: In Rehearsal. The show features rehearsal photos from Swope’s 40-year career documenting NY theater (including photos from the original production of West Side Story) and opens Thursday, Sept. 27. Go down to LPA (conveniently located on the Lincoln Center campus) and check it out!

    This week’s Caturday should bring back some “memories.” This 1982 photograph of performer Christine Langner is from the Broadway run of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats” (one of the longest running Broadway shows in history), and was taken by legendary theater and film photographer Martha Swope. The image is currently located in the incredible Martha Swope Collection at our Library for the Performing Arts (LPA) - a collection highlighted this week in an amazing NY Times profile of Swope (which includes an online slideshow of images), and that is starring in a new (of course, free) exhibition at LPA called Martha Swope: In Rehearsal. The show features rehearsal photos from Swope’s 40-year career documenting NY theater (including photos from the original production of West Side Story) and opens Thursday, Sept. 27. Go down to LPA (conveniently located on the Lincoln Center campus) and check it out!

  7. Can you spot the kittens in this cool 1883 print from The Peterson Magazine? The image - currently in our Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection - is called “The Kittens” (and there are cute kittens) but it probably should have been called, “Tall Women,” or “Big Dresses.” Whatever - happy Caturday!

    Can you spot the kittens in this cool 1883 print from The Peterson Magazine? The image - currently in our Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection - is called “The Kittens” (and there are cute kittens) but it probably should have been called, “Tall Women,” or “Big Dresses.” Whatever - happy Caturday!

  8. It’s an avant garde kind of Caturday. Check out this photo of famed composer and musical innovator John Cage — whose 100th birthday was last Tuesday — with a very cute black cat. When you’re done with that, download The New York Public Library’s new iBook about Cage, which is totally free and features videos, unique images, rare Cage manuscript material and more (it’s part of the Library’s free iBook series, Point - check them all out). When you’re done with that, then go to The Library’s amazing John Cage Unbound project, a living archive of narrated performance videos by professional musicians, students, and performers - you can watch, listen to, and compare artistic interpretations. You can also get an up-close look at rare John Cage manuscripts, which are housed at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Once you’ve done all that and are totally inspired, submit your own video. Happy Caturday!

    It’s an avant garde kind of Caturday. Check out this photo of famed composer and musical innovator John Cage — whose 100th birthday was last Tuesday — with a very cute black cat. When you’re done with that, download The New York Public Library’s new iBook about Cage, which is totally free and features videos, unique images, rare Cage manuscript material and more (it’s part of the Library’s free iBook series, Point - check them all out). When you’re done with that, then go to The Library’s amazing John Cage Unbound project, a living archive of narrated performance videos by professional musicians, students, and performers - you can watch, listen to, and compare artistic interpretations. You can also get an up-close look at rare John Cage manuscripts, which are housed at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Once you’ve done all that and are totally inspired, submit your own video. Happy Caturday!

  9. For this week’s Caturday, we thought we’d share this image of a cat sitting in a field in September 1918 (meaning this photo is celebrating its 94th anniversary, since today is the first day of September). It’s a stereoscopic image from our Robert N. Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views that we’ve actually shared before for Caturday in its original, double-sided form. Now, thanks to the magic of NYPL’s Stereogranimator, we can make the image (and all of our stereoscopic images) move - and in honor of Labor Day, why not make our images do some work? Happy Caturday!

    For this week’s Caturday, we thought we’d share this image of a cat sitting in a field in September 1918 (meaning this photo is celebrating its 94th anniversary, since today is the first day of September). It’s a stereoscopic image from our Robert N. Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views that we’ve actually shared before for Caturday in its original, double-sided form. Now, thanks to the magic of NYPL’s Stereogranimator, we can make the image (and all of our stereoscopic images) move - and in honor of Labor Day, why not make our images do some work? Happy Caturday!

  10. Today’s Caturday comes from legendary writer Robert Louis Stevenson (sort of) - it’s a photomechanical print depicting his poem “The Land Of Counterpane.” Note the adorable kitten on the end of the bed trying to cheer up the little boy, who is sick in bed and playing with his toy soldiers. The print by artist C.M. Burd is currently in the Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection (a collection Andy Warhol used, by the way) and was originally in a book of Stevenson’s Children’s Verses (likely from 1913, although it’s not totally clear). So happy Caturday! Love Robert Louis Stevenson? Check out some of his writing from NYPL! Or, if you want to do some serious research, the Library’s Berg Collection has some of Robert Louis Stevenson’s papers. Cool, right?

    Today’s Caturday comes from legendary writer Robert Louis Stevenson (sort of) - it’s a photomechanical print depicting his poem “The Land Of Counterpane.” Note the adorable kitten on the end of the bed trying to cheer up the little boy, who is sick in bed and playing with his toy soldiers. The print by artist C.M. Burd is currently in the Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection (a collection Andy Warhol used, by the way) and was originally in a book of Stevenson’s Children’s Verses (likely from 1913, although it’s not totally clear). So happy Caturday! Love Robert Louis Stevenson? Check out some of his writing from NYPL! Or, if you want to do some serious research, the Library’s Berg Collection has some of Robert Louis Stevenson’s papers. Cool, right?