In Part I and Part II of this Old New York bohemian cat tale, many of the photos were taken by photojournalist Jessie Tarbox Beals. In this final post in the series, I’ll share many of her cat photos and take you on a tour of her Sheridan Square studio in Greenwich Village.
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1917: Crazy Cat and the Bohemian Greenwich Village Felines of Jessie Tarbox Beals
Posted: 21st May 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat StoriesTags: Cat Stories, Greenwich Village, Jessie Tarbox Beals, New York History, Old New York, Sheridan Square, Vintage Cat Photos
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1916: Crazy Cat and the Bohemian Greenwich Village Felines of Sheridan Square, Part II
Posted: 13th May 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat StoriesTags: 58 Washington Square South, 61 Washington Square South, Cat Stories, Grace Godwin's Garret, House of Genius, Jessie Tarbox Beals, New York History
Crazy Cat did not belong to any one human in particular, but rather made the rounds from one tearoom to another, no doubt dining on a few morsels or taking a cat nap near a warm fire in every establishment that would welcome him.
1916: Crazy Cat and the Bohemian Greenwich Village Felines of Sheridan Square, Part I
Posted: 7th May 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat StoriesTags: Cat Stories, Don Dickerman, Greenwich Village, Margaret A. Huntington, New York History, Pirate's Cave, Sheridan Square, Will o' the Wisp
You may nearly fall over the black-and-white feline which belongs to no one in any of the buildings, but which haunts them all like an unquiet ghost, and which is known by everyone as the Crazy Cat.
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
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.
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.
