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being a model ship builder(us navy 1864-1915 mainly) I look through many old photos in research for my projects.. In many ships crew photos, were the entire crew is in their best uniform (photos were not an everyday occurance back then) you can find a crewmember or two holding the ship's cats, navy life back then was hard but you can see that it was an honor to hold the cat for the photo.. some times the ships cat was given center stage when the photographer came aboard.. (my current project at 6ft long 1/48th scale will have a cat somewhere with the crew) incuded is a 1898 photo of vixen mascot of the USS VIXEN
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