1960s’ Candid photos of American Chow breeders. Priceless!
I was looking through my old “American Chow Chow” magazines today and ran into these photo collages of many of our top breeders from the 1960’s. I am you will recognize so many of these wonderful chowists from your pedigrees and from at the shows.These are priceless candids I hope you enjoy!!!!
100 years ago -Westminster Kennel Club Best in Show not awarded
With Westminster Kennel Club judging underway this week, I thought this was an interesting little piece of WKC history. The photo is of one of the actual chow entries that year. The name was misspelled. It should read Champion “Dorian” 100 years ago in 1923, Westminster Kennel Club had no BEST IN SHOW awarded due […]
CURATED COLLECTION – Chows on the beach/water
This curated collection is an ongoing project as more vintage photos of Chows wash up on the shores of ChowTales .. ENJOY! THE STARFISH STORY adapted from the Star Thrower – Illustration by Sandra Miller A Chow walks along a beach after a terrible storm riddled with thousands of starfish. She quickly carries the starfish […]
RESTORATION- 1920s 3 chows with 5 women on beach. Exquisite photo
I couldn’t believe my eyes when I spotted this beautiful photo postcard up for grabs at auction! This RPCC (real photo postcard) is typical of ones taken at the beach, on the boardwalks and amusement areas and offered to the patrons as postcard momentos of their outing. Copies could be purchased to send to family […]
RESTORATION- 1928 Mom and kids with their Chow puppy
I am so in love with this photo. Everything about it screams out the Roaring 20’s!!! A photo that could be easily dated without a date written on it! The wardrobe alone was worth acquiring this image for my private collection. Very little work had to be done to restore this beauty! A picture is […]
1966 – German actress Ingrid van Bergen with a chow
Our German readers will most likely know many the films that Ingrid van Bergen acted in. She had a long list of movies to her credit during her successful career acting, and featured with greats from America as well such as William Holden and Kirk Douglas in the 1960s. At the time of this writing […]
History of the Chow in Canada By Marguerite (Joey) Nattrass
The History of the Chow Chow in Canada A little background on how this article came to light. My wonderful chow friend Michelle Sept in Canada was writing the newsletter for her Chow Club and asked for some photos from ChowTales to add some “visuals” to the text. Of course, I was thrilled to oblige. […]
Late 1800’s German bookplate with a Chinese Spitz/chow photo
This late 1800s German bookplate shows a wonderful example of a very early Chinese chow. Thank you to Sandra Lindberg (a friend in Chinese Shar-Pei history circles) for the translation and to all those who generously offered to help ! This is such a very interesting article which had no date on the pages but […]
RESTORATION Early 1900s 2 chows and a horse hitching ring
What a random find this was and it seems like there are times these treasures find ME, vs the other way around. First, the listing was not labeled as having chows in it but was titled “bears”. Then once I converted the image to black and white and enlarged it, a wonderful surprise appeared to […]
RESTORATION- 1920s dapper man with his chow
It is a rare find to unearth 1920s photos of men with chows as the breed was considered more or a woman’s dog of the era. But I hit the jackpot on these 2 small snapshots of this Roaring 20’s spiffy gent wearing a “Gatsby” style boaters hat while posing for the Kodak Brownie camera […]
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