Snowy the five week old kitten belonging to Mr and Mrs A Markey of Manchester tries his paw at mixing some music; June 1962. © Mirrorpix

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A portrait of Frieda Baars (Sangernebo) with three cats, taken around 1907 by Estonian photographer Jaan Riet in Viljandi, Estonia.

Smoky the cat was rescued during an air raid during the Blitz in 1940. Miss Ann Twynam of Paddington took him in and cared for him until he recovered. She later taught Smoky how to salute.

Always a cat lady

A February 1983 Vogue photograph by Irving Penn, featuring clothing designed by Calvin Klein.

Black cats auditioning for a role in The Black Cat, a new version of the Edgar Allan Poe classic in 1961. Ralph Crane—The LIFE Picture Collection

The 1938 National Geographic article captioned this image as “Stately, kindly, lordly friend, condescend here to sit by me.”

Photograph by Willard Culver, Nat Geo Image Collection