Angry Cat Frame Color:Silver Staff photographer James Estrin was

Staff photographer James Estrin was on assignment taking photographs of passengers for an article on higher demand of the city's taxi cabs

Long before baseball teams started giving away bobbleheads and souvenir cups like candy

Illinois and Massachusetts

but then they spent eight years worrying for his life

Angry Cat Frame Color:Silver Staff photographer James Estrin wasThe original grumpy cat is shown here looking particularly angry about having to wear a hat in this photo from 1942. This photo was taken for the New York Herald Tribune by Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Nat Fein. Using a bulky Speed Graphic camera, Fein was known for photographing a vast array of subjects, from sleeping circus elephants to Mayor Fiorello La Guardia leading the Sanitation Department orchestra. He worked at the New York Herald