Seals have always evoked emotion. At the turn of XIX and XX centuries, photographers have realized this and have started to use cats and kittens as props, and how the main characters of photography. It is particularly fond of these four photographers.
Harry pointer — the man who invented to remove the seals. In the photo he is with his cats.
Photo from the pointer's "Brighton Cats".
Jesse Tarbox Beals — the first woman photographer, whose works were published. She also loved to shoot seals.
Beals and his cat.
Cat with a hangover. Jesse Tarbox Beals.
Arnold Gent — another new York photographer. His Studio there lived a cat Buzzer. In the photo — miss Ann Murdock with Bazzera.
Gent liked the natural photos and used cat in order to relax the models. Girl with Bazzera, 1913.
Harry Whittier Vries specialised in staging photos for postcards.