James E. Taylor : Portrait of the proprietor of the Carlisle Cats' Club greeting a cat at a cat's entrance to the Club

Item Information

Title:
James E. Taylor : Portrait of the proprietor of the Carlisle Cats' Club greeting a cat at a cat's entrance to the Club
Description:
From a series of images of the Carlisle Cat's Club. Blackington broadcast a Yankee Yarn about Taylor (1944-07-27): after the repeal of Prohibition, cat-lover James E. Taylor decided he wanted to make a nightclub just for cats. He converted his barn into a club room for all the strays of Carlisle, complete with a special "members only" entrance, bunks for each cat in the barn loft, and a posted menu for the 30 or more cats which would frequent his property. Taylor kept a maternity ward for kittens, a jail for misbehaving cats, and club members paid mouse-catching "dues" (one mouse a month).
Photographer:
Blackington, Alton H.
Date:
[ca. 1930]
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Black-and-white photographs
Glass plate negatives
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Collection (local):
Alton H. Blackington Collection
Subjects:
Cats--Massachusetts--Carlisle--Photographs
Carlisle Cat Club
Taylor, James E.
Places:
Massachusetts > Middlesex (county) > Carlisle
Extent:
1 photograph ; 12.5 x 10 cm.
Link to Item:
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/muph061-sl726-i002
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Carlisle (Mass.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
muph061-sl726-i002