Love those silly internet cat sites? Adorable kitties getting into trouble have been around forever. Here’s one of many too-cute-to-be-true images from Oliver Herford’s Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten (New York: Scribner’s, 1922, c1904). This sweet little stray wandered off the library’s weeding list into a safe, new home in Special Collections & Archives, already home to nearly thirty different editions of the more famous Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
—Suzy Taraba