Among the more than 1,000 images of Arnold Genthe’s photographs in the Library of Congress Collection’s digital library, 82 feature his beloved cat Buzzer.
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1911: New York’s Buzzer, the Most Photographed Cat in America
Posted: 16th April 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Featured FelinesTags: Arnold Genthe, Buzzer the cat, Cat Stories, Charles Thorley, New York History
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1881: Humpty Dumpty, Colonel Washington, and the Featured Felines of the Cat Congress on Broadway
Posted: 28th February 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Featured FelinesTags: Cat Congress, George L. Fox, Geroge B. Bunnell, New American Museum, New York History, Old New York, Robert Richard Randal
Although the first National Cat Show at Madison Square Garden II in May 1895 is often cited as the first cat show in America, there were actually quite a few cat shows in New York City, including the Cat Congress at the New American Museum on Broadway.
1891: The Well-Bred Cats and Dogs of the Whitby Kennels in Flatbush, Brooklyn
Posted: 13th February 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Dog TailsTags: Dominie Freeman, Flatbush Avenue, Hurlbut Chapman, John C. Bergen, New York History, Teunis Bergen, Whitby Kennels
In 1891, Hurlbut Chapman, a once prominent lawyer from Rye, New York, leased the old John C. Bergen homestead at 972 Flatbush Avenue, at the corner of Avenue A (today’s Albemarle Road). There, he opened the Whitby Kennels, where he boarded the dogs and cats of wealthy New Yorkers.
1894: The Irish Cat, the Spanish Duke, and New York Mayor Gilroy
Posted: 16th January 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Feline MascotsTags: Duke of Veragua, Francis W. Dickins, New York History, Old New York, Thomas F. Gilroy
Miss Bridget Cork, a dark gray Irish cat, arrived at New York City Hall on February 14, 1894.
1912: The Cat Lady of Hoyt Street, Brooklyn, and the Mysterious Thanksgiving Day Fire
Posted: 13th November 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Crazy Cat LadiesTags: Alphonse Friedrich, Anthony Oreckinto, Brooklyn History, Cat Stories, Hoyt Street, New York History, Octavia Friedrich
In one of a cluster of six shabby little frame houses at Hoyt and Livingston Streets, Brooklyn, stubbornly holding their own there against the huge overshadowing business buildings reared all about them, there lived until yesterday a hermit spinster, Miss Octavia Fredericks. The neighborhood was full of stories of her, many of them purely legendary […]
