Kitty's First Day at Catnip School

by Harry Whittier Frees

Fifteen photos in all of dressed kittens in a kitty school setting (even a misbehaving puppy thrown in!) Note the great care that the author/photographer took to assure readers that the photos were made with great and affectionate care for the animals. Frees was the master of this odd little genre of photography.

Paperback

Published January 1, 1932

About the author

Harry Whittier Frees (1879 - 1953) was an American photographer who created novelty postcards and children's books based on his photographs of animals. He dressed the animals and posed them in human situations with props. The books and postcards are both highly collectible today.

Frees was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1879, after which his family moved to Oaks, Pennsylvania, where he did his famous works. In the 1940s, he moved to Florida, where he died in 1953.