Beauty and the Beast Human-Animal Relations as Revealed in Real Photo Postcards, 1905-1935

296 Pages·2010·74.832 MB·English

by  Arluke A., Bogdan R.

Beauty and the Beast

Arnold Arluke and Robert Bogdan
Human-Animal Relations
as Revealed in Real Photo Postcards,
1905–1935
Syracuse University Press
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library of congress cataloging-in-publication data
Arluke, Arnold.
Beauty and the beast : human-animal relations as revealed in real photo postcards, 1905–1935 /
Arnold Arluke and Robert Bogdan. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8156-0981-0 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Photography of animals. 2. Photography, Artistic. 3. Human-animal relationships—
Pictorial works. I. Bogdan, Robert. II. Title.
TR727.A75 2010
779'.32—dc22 2010028188
Manufactured in the United States of America
Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Preface xiii
Abbreviations xv
Animals, Humans, and Postcards 1
1.
Pets 9
2.
Mascots 37
3.
Workers 53
4.
Food and Goods 83
5.
Patients and Needy 109
6.
Vermin 129
7.
Game 141
8.
Trophies, Specimens, and Furs 168
9.
Spectacles 187
10.
Sports 212
11.
Symbols 230
12.
Living with Inconsistencies, Past and Present 248
13.
References 257
Index 267

Illustrations
1.1. “Beauty and the Beast,” 1907 1 2.29. Girl cuddling rabbit, ca. 1911 24
2.1. Man with pet dog, ca. 1908 9 2.30. Idle moment with kittens, ca. 1912 25
2.2. Upper and lower berths, ca. 1909 10 2.31. Dog dressed and seated in chair, ca. 1908 25
2.3. Jack Pickford with collies, 1924 11 2.32. Shaking hands, ca. 1908 26
2.4. Man with mixed-breed dog, ca. 1908 11 2.33. Dog at the piano, ca. 1915 26
2.5. Family with purebred dog, ca. 1910 12 2.34. Roderic and his pets, ca. 1908 26
2.6. Girl with pony, ca. 1909 13 2.35. Man with dog with back to camera,
2.7. Upper-class woman and dog, ca. 1911 13 ca. 1919 27
2.8. Boy with Staffordshire bull terrier, 2.36. Woman with dog in studio-prop Model T,
ca. 1912 13 ca. 1909 27
2.9. African American men with poodles, 2.37. Man in log with dog on top, ca. 1909 28
ca. 1924 14 2.38. Four generations of females, ca. 1918 28
2.10. Kil-So-Quah, aged ninety-nine, and her son, 2.39. Family with dog, ca. 1914 29
ca. 1908 15 2.40. Family with dog at the beach, ca. 1907 29
2.11. Elderly women with canaries, 1928 16 2.41. Eldest son, ca. 1909 30
2.12. Man with parrot, ca. 1906 16 2.42. Family with car and pets, ca. 1920 30
2.13. Boys and pit bull at play, ca. 1911 17 2.43. Photographers with their dog, ca. 1908 31
2.14. Woman with cats, ca. 1912 17 2.44. Spot, embalmed, 1907 31
2.15. Sheepdog litter, ca. 1916 18 2.45. Taxidermy advertisement for pet mounting,
2.16. Jones, “Home of the Belgian Hare,” ca. 1910 32
ca. 1917 18 2.46. Siblings with dog, ca. 1912 32
2.17. Pet monkey, ca. 1910 19 2.47. Girls’ pet, 1911 33
2.18. Boys with pet coyotes, ca. 1924 19 2.48. Children with pet birds, ca. 1921 33
2.19. Deer and dog pets, 1913 20 2.49. Boy playing doctor with pit bull,
2.20. Boy with owl pets, ca. 1911 20 ca. 1908 34
2.21. Farmer with hunting dogs, ca. 1917 20 2.50. Children and dog at play, ca. 1920 34
2.22. Farm girl with horses, ca. 1915 21 2.51. Boy Scouts care for injured dog,
2.23. Teenager with calf, ca. 1910 21 ca. 1917 35
2.24. Studio portrait of girl with rooster, 2.52. Child with teddy bear, ca. 1910 36
ca. 1909 22 3.1. Studio portrait of sailors with mascot,
2.25. Fancier with prizewinning pigeons, ca. 1915 37
ca. 1920 22 3.2. A teddy bear mascot, ca. 1915 39
2.26. Woman with dog on lap, ca. 1914 23 3.3. USS Louisiana mascot Billy with crew,
2.27. Woman with dogs, ca. 1924 23 ca. 1920 39
2.28. Cradling cat to face, ca. 1909 24 3.4. Iguana mascot, ca. 1908 40
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3.5. Sailor with boxing kangaroo, ca. 1911 40 4.20. Three-horse team pulling heavy fire equipment,
3.6. Chief petty officer with kittens, ca. 1908 41 1911 65
3.7. Sailors holding ratters, ca. 1915 42 4.21. “I’m on the Water Wagon Now,”
3.8. Mascot of the USS Georgia, ca. 1915 42 ca. 1907 66
3.9. USS Florida mascot, ca. 1915 43 4.22. Paddy wagon, ca. 1907 67
3.10. The biggest and smallest dogs of the fleet, 4.23. Bethlehem Steel Company strike, 1910 67
ca. 1915 44 4.24. Klansmen on horseback, ca. 1927 68
3.11. Dogfight, ca. 1915 44 4.25. “Comache [sic],” sole survivor of Custer’s last
3.12. Pretending to kiss a mascot, ca. 1915 45 stand, ca. 1914 69
3.13. “Billie’s morning bath,” 1910 45 4.26. Horses on treadmill, 1907 69
3.14. USS Wyoming’s mascot, ca. 1915 46 4.27. Gathering sap, ca. 1907 70
3.15. “One of our mascots,” 1907 46 4.28. Potato digger, ca. 1912 70
3.16. “Tom Whiskers, veteran of world war,” 4.29. Farm family in front of their home,
ca. 1920 47 ca. 1912 71
3.17. Beloved bear mascot, ca. 1915 48 4.30. Harvesting the wheat, 1910 72
3.18. Bill telling his keeper good-bye, ca. 1917 48 4.31. Horse with hoof caught in tracks,
3.19. Captain Pardee and mascot, ca. 1915 49 ca. 1908 73
3.20. Dalmatian with firemen, ca. 1907 49 4.32. Captain Perkins and Old Dock, ca. 1908 74
3.21. Lumber-camp kitchen crew with camp mascots, 4.33. Breeding horses, ca. 1910 74
ca. 1910 50 4.34. Percheron breeder, ca. 1909 75
3.22. African American member of the Elks, 4.35. The grand prize–winning stallion,
ca. 1914 51 ca. 1911 76
3.23. Orchestra dog, ca. 1918 51 4.36. Sod house with family and oxen,
4.1. Settling California, ca. 1909 53 ca. 1910 77
4.2. Erie Canal, ca. 1908 55 4.37. Fred Vaillancourt with dog team,
4.3. Streetcar in winter, ca. 1910 55 ca. 1910 77
4.4. Hitching rack, ca. 1911 56 4.38. Traveling goat-cart photographers,
4.5. Beery horse trainer’s center, 1911 57 ca. 1915 78
4.6. Two men and a boy on horseback, 4.39. Posing for photo on pony, ca. 1916 78
ca. 1915 57 4.40. “A Wise Dog,” ca. 1910 79
4.7. Fancy horses and carriage, ca. 1912 58 4.41. Bloodhounds on the chase, ca. 1913 80
4.8. Morgan horse pulling sled, ca. 1909 58 4.42. Jack, military corpsmen dog, ca. 1918 80
4.9. Light draft horses, ca. 1907 59 4.43. Captain of Pigeon Company with Cher Amie,
4.10. Waiting for the train, ca. 1911 60 1918 81
4.11. Traveling meat market, ca. 1911 60 5.1. Butchering hogs, ca. 1908 83
4.12. Horse-drawn beer wagon, ca. 1907 61 5.2. Straight Goods, ca. 1910 84
4.13. “Compliments of People’s Ice Co.,” 5.3. Milking cow with cat getting a squirt,
ca. 1907 61 ca. 1908 84
4.14. Borden’s milk wagon, ca. 1907 62 5.4. Women shearing sheep, ca. 1910 85
4.15. Ambulance and hearse, ca. 1911 62 5.5. Hog slaughter, 1913 86
4.16. Load of timber, ca. 1914 63 5.6. Turkey Day in Lisbon, ca. 1913 86
4.17. Coal mining in Colorado, 1912 63 5.7. Christmas card from butcher shop,
4.18. Fourteen-mule team, ca. 1914 64 ca. 1910 87
4.19. First woman postal carrier, ca. 1912 65 5.8. Pig butcher, ca. 1910 88
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5.9. Largest ox in the world, 1908 89 6.6. Veterinary students with horse cadaver,
5.10. Backyard chickens, ca. 1908 89 ca. 1909 113
5.11. Yoked hogs, ca. 1918 90 6.7. 1910 Cornell veterinary graduation class 114
5.12. New and improved rib roast, ca. 1909 91 6.8. Dr. Powell, veterinarian, ca. 1908 115
5.13. Branding a calf, ca. 1907 92 6.9. “Blood Poison,” 1909 115
5.14. Dehorning, ca. 1914 92 6.10. Veterinarian in protective dress,
5.15. Dehorning cage, 1910 93 ca. 1908 116
5.16. Shearing sheep, 1909 93 6.11. Treating a horse’s lameness, ca. 1910 117
5.17. Lamb castration, ca. 1912 94 6.12. Preoperative horse with large tumor,
5.18. Stock-judging class, ca. 1910 94 1909 117
5.19. Angus grand-champion prizewinners at 6.13. Castrating a wild one, ca. 1909 118
stockyard, ca. 1909 95 6.14. Dr. J. L. Myers, ready to operate, 1912 118
5.20. Big Sam, 1913 95 6.15. Fire ruins East End sheds, 1911 119
5.21. Chicken salesman, ca. 1911 96 6.16. Red Star promotion, ca. 1917 120
5.22. Layers, ca. 1911 97 6.17. Veterinarian with two-headed calf,
5.23. Prize Holstein at fair, ca. 1908 97 ca. 1914 121
5.24. First-place ram and ewe, 1910 98 6.18. Two-legged calf, ca. 1909 121
5.25. Farmers with their prize chickens, 6.19. Dipping cattle, ca. 1914 122
ca. 1908 98 6.20. “No Cholera in Premont,” ca. 1916 122
5.26. A load of fancy poultry, ca. 1909 99 6.21. Foot-and-mouth-disease killing,
5.27. Standard Stock Powder Company, ca. 1913 123
ca. 1909 99 6.22. Dr. H. L. Pool, veterinary surgeon,
5.28. Council Bluffs Remedy Company salesmen, ca. 1918 124
ca. 1920 100 6.23. Veterinary students examining dog cadaver,
5.29. Calf and calf meal, ca. 1914 100 ca. 1920 124
5.30. Armour plant, 1919 101 6.24. Veterinarians at hospital, ca. 1918 125
5.31. Loading sheep, 1910 102 6.25. Veterinary-clinic dog kennel, ca. 1926 125
5.32. Interior of meatpacking plant, 1908 103 6.26. Equine drinking at fountain, ca. 1912 127
5.33. Armour ham for sale in shop window, 6.27. Humane-society float, 1914 127
ca. 1908 103 7.1. Children with dead coyotes, 1913 129
5.34. Highest-priced steers bought by Armour, 7.2. Trapped wolf, ca. 1917 130
1912 104 7.3. “The Drive,” 1922 131
5.35. Swift Dressing Department, ca. 1910 104 7.4. Display of killed wolves, 1922 131
5.36. Pride of the Valley poultry farm, 7.5. Dogs, townspeople, and a dead wolf,
ca. 1910 105 ca. 1920 132
5.37. Poultry Department, ca. 1915 105 7.6. Wolf hunters with guides and dogs, 1909 132
5.38. Prize Flemish rabbit, ca. 1912 106 7.7. Wolf-killing competition, 1921 133
5.39. Fenner’s rabbitry, 1911 107 7.8. “Deer Slayers,” ca. 1916 134
5.40. Surge bucket milking machine, ca. 1932 107 7.9. Buffalo wolf shot and killed, ca. 1910 135
6.1. Dr. Sass, veterinary surgeon, ca. 1914 109 7.10. Dead coyotes, ca. 1916 136
6.2. Blacksmith at work, ca. 1910 111 7.11. Last cougar in Wisconsin, ca. 1912 136
6.3. Farmer veterinarian, ca. 1907 111 7.12. Western Kansas rabbit drive, ca. 1919 137
6.4. Worker veterinarian, ca. 1907 112 7.13. One-day hunt, ca. 1919 137
6.5. The anatomy of the horse, 1915 113 7.14. The king of the rattlers, ca. 1916 138