A Brief History of Photography in 14 Cat Pics

Victorian cat pics, cats in color, lolcats and more

Credit Harry Pointer, ca 1870s. Public Domain.

Most people probably assume that humanity’s obsession with cat pics began with the Internet. They’re wrong.

Humans have been photographing their cats since at least the 1850s — just a bit after photography was invented. And they kept doing it, all the way through the 20th…