[cat making portrait of cats on a dock]
name: label: publisher
content: Mainzer, A.
notes: label: Description
content: This is a blank color comic postcard that has not been addressed or mailed. The image depicts a male cat photographer photographing a dressed up cat couple on a dock. Boats with cats can be seen in the water in the background. Two male child cats are playing with a ball on the dock, while an undressed dog (pet) has escaped the female cat walking it and is chasing the ball.
label: Description
content: The surface of the postcard has a pebbled texture.
label: Description
content: These postcards are known as "Mainzer Cats" or "Mainzer Dressed Cats. " The publisher is the Alfred Mainzer Company, but the artist is Eugen Hurtung.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Animals
label: Subject
content: Cats
label: Subject
content: Portraits
label: Subject
content: Dogs
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Wayne Hill Photographica Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0066.081
label: accession number
content: 2016.0066
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0066.0081
objectType: label: Object Name
content: picture postcard
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 13.97 cm