Kittintypes: Nineteenth-Century Cats in the Daniel Carter Beard Collection

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06/03/2026 09:30 AM EDT

Cats appear in photographs from the earliest days of the medium in the mid-19th century. We will share some early portrait tintypes of kittens and cats from the collection of illustrator Daniel Carter Beard.

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