The Library Of Congress would like to share a selection of free cat images with you


If there’s one thing the internet isn’t short of, it’s pictures of cats. Every variety of image, documenting weird feline poses or photoshopping spider legs onto furry bodies, is in wide circulation, bombarding social media or easily searchable with a key quick keystrokes. Somehow, within this world of plenty, The Library Of Congress has managed to stand out by offering a special gallery of royalty-free cat images from its collection.
The selection, spotted by the keen, glowing eyes of Twitter user @tenzochris, is curated by the LOC, pulled, we must imagine, from some great underground vault filled with both rare old images and print-outs of every historically important iteration of the Cheezburger cat meme. With a weirdly derogatory use of quotation marks, the page informs us that the gallery was drawn from “staff ‘experts’ [who] contributed their favorite photos, posters, & illustrations.”