Sorry about this, but I couldn’t resist. It’s just some mid-week silliness.
“Watering the flowers,” c. 1914, by Harry Whittier Frees, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (both photos).
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Frees, an American photographer, began taking posed pictures of animals in 1906. They soon became popular on novelty postcards and calendars and in advertisements, magazines, and children’s books. (More here.)

