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Tournee du Chat Noir

A copy of La Tournée du Chat noir, a well known poster advertising Le Chat Noir, a Parisian cabaret

Tags: Advertising Copy, Black cats, Cabarets, Cafes, Dining Establishments, France, Music Halls, painting, Paris, Posters, Restaurants, Steinlen, Théophile Alexandre

Two cats.

Tags: 1800s, black cat, cats, Steinlen, Théophile Alexandre

Oil on canvas painting of a child in a cradle floating in a river. On the edge of the cradle is a black kitten.

Tags: 1800s, 1870, abandoned children, Black cats, cat, cats, children, cradle, France, oil on canvas, painting

Retold Americana short story about a preacher who encounters black cats that promise “Wait until Emmet comes.”

Tags: americana, black cat, cat, christianity, Date unknown, ghost story, haunting, Oral tradition, Preacher, S.E. Schlosser, supernatural

A portrait of a young lady holding a black cat

Tags: 1920s, black cat, painting, portrait