About this blog: Animal photos from before 1995, once every other hour. Might post the occasional newer photo if it still has that grainy or nostalgic look. I mostly find photos on archive.org and in various online libraries, though I will occasionally share something from my own collection. Current queue is at 12 posts a day.

About me: Poppy, 26, he/she, Danish, obsessed with animals and folklore, casual collector of old animal books and postcards, actually an ungulate pretending to be human. I also run @horsefigureoftheday :)

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Blue tit chick By: Unknown photographer From: Wildlife Fact-File 1990s

Grey junglefowl By: Kenneth W. Fink From: Pheasants of the World 1993

Taxidermy quagga stallion at the Leyden Natural History Museum By: Graham Renshaw From: The Zoologist, Issue 716 1901

Teeth of an African mole rat By: Unknown photographer From: The Grolier Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animals 1994

West Coast damp-wood termites By: Donald Specker From: Nature's Unlovables 1990

Manchurian crane By: George Archibald From: The World Conservation Yearbook 1976

Bison licking her newborn clean By: Unknown photographer From: Walt Disney's Vanishing Prairie 1955

Swallowtail caterpillar (Papilio machaon) By: Clifford S. Crawford From: Biology of Desert Invertebrates 1981

Nest of a peninsula cooter By: Archie Carr From: Life Nature Library: Reptiles 1963

Moorhen By: Unknown photographer From: The Grolier Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animals 1994

Woodland dormouse (Graphiurus murinus) By: Ernest P. Walker From: Walker's Mammals of the World 1964

There are a lot of wildlife photos by Nina Leen coming up in the queue, so I figured I wanted to look up what kind of person she was.

Nina Leen was one of the most prolific wildlife photographers for Life Time Magazine, being a constant contributor from the 1940s until the magazine's closure in 1972, after which she published her own books up until her death in 1995. Her date of birth is unknown - all that's known for sure is that it was some time between 1909 and 1914.

In addition to wildlife photography, she produced a series of photos of everyday teenage life in the 1940s and 50s, as well as journalistic photos (the latter of these examples was even selected for inclusion on the Voyager Golden Record):

You may also recognize her fashion photography:

Leen described herself as a photojournalist: “If I were only a photographer, I would have a selection of single pictures, and they would be good pictures but not a story. Of course, to tell a story in pictures, the story should have something in it that is worth telling – to milk a cow without milk makes no sense.”

Apparently some of her favorite animals were bats, which she referred to as her "flying kittens."