Author: kcgrier
I'm a historian who writes about the evolving relationships of people with animals. My blog, The Pet Historian, focuses on Americans' relationships with their pets from the eighteenth century to the present. I use material and visual culture to help tell this complicated and fascinating story.
Working with my graduate students at the University of Delaware, I also created a website called Disposable America, where we use digital journalism to explore the history of disposability and its material legacy.
And Here’s Someone Who Really Wanted His Picture Taken…..
More on Courting Cats
A Gentleman Pug
Feline Courtship, Victorian Style
The “Largest Domestic Cat” of 1907
A Formal Postcard Portrait of a Little Old Dog
Postcards of Pets
Someone Didn’t Want His Picture Taken
The Pet Historian 