EPHEMERA – Circa 1920s Rare Bridge Tally Card featuring hand colorized chow
Circa early 1920s. A rare find, this bridge tally card is part of an unused set(I only purchased the chow) When I first saw this I knew the chow looked familiar and compared to other images of Ch Li Ping Tow, I am fairly certain this is him The attached chain leash is the finest […]
RESTORATION – Circa 1916 Fashionable woman with her chow
Circa 1916 Stylish woman with her chow. Couldn’t you just image this pair strutting up and down the Atlantic City Boardwalk back in the day? When I started restoring this image I wasn’t too hopeful as there was very little visible detail to the naked eye. Its amazing what scanning at 2000 dpi and an […]
TIME CAPSULE – 1901 – CHINESE CHUM America’s First Chow Champion
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Proctor were instrumental in bringing in outstanding stock and getting some of the first chows noticed in the show ring. “Chinese Chum” was imported to America from English breeder H. Sawtell, by Mrs Proctor where he was was the winner of the first U.S. Chow Chow competition in 1905, […]
Circa early 1900’s – Chow Mascot aboard U.S.S Mississippi
This incredible original photo of a Chow Mascot aboard the U.S.S. Mississippi came to me with a group of images from a seller out of Canada. Every photo was more amazing then the next This is a real photo in my personal collection, and not a postcard. I cant help but wonder where they ship’s […]
1942 Charley and his chow Bosco enlist in the Army together – Dogs for Defence
Today I was going through my files looking for military chow info and ran across this gem. This is dated circa 1942 and tells of this young Chinese/American man enlisting and also volunteering his Chow dog “Bosco” for Dogs for Defense . The photo is a bit confusing of the dog but I am pretty […]
1933 and 1940 – 2 More stunning magazine covers featuring chow puppies
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE ENTIRE GALLERY OF MAGAZINE COVERS READ MORE ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR IN THIS “AMERICAN MAGAZINE” DIANA THORN AT THIS LINK READ MORE ON THIS TOPIC IN THESE RELATED POSTS GALLERY – Magazine Covers featuring Chows DIANA THORNE- 1920’s-1940’s Illustrator and her Chow artwork
1939 Actress Carole Lombard with a chow – Ch. Chia Wan’s Blue Bedouin
Among my collection of magazine covers that feature Chows is this jaw-dropping magazine cover of Tailwaggers Magazine from 1939. This dog is from some very important bloodlines, going back to being heavily bred on the famous Ch. Choonam Brilliantine. Ch. Chia Wan’s Blue Bedouin was sired by the also top winning Ch. Chia Wan’s Red Monarch (who was […]
1918 Pictorial Review – Chow puppy on a magazine cover – extremely rare
Circa 1918 July -The Pictorial Review was an American women’s magazine published from 1899 to 1939. The magazine merged with The Delineator magazine in 1937. This is one of my favorite magazine covers because the chow chow was just coming into its own in America pre-1920s. This beautiful magazine cover is 100 years old this year! Not until the mid-1920s […]
King Zog of Albania with his chow
King Zog of Albania posing with 2 dogs including a chow – photo credit and date unknown This photo came to my attention via Beverley Nilson on Facebook and I tucked it away until I found out more about this man. The chow looks to be almost a “cream” in color. There is much written […]
1904 – 1973 Chilean poet – Pablo Neruda and his Chow Chu Tah
“Joyful, joyful, joyful – as only dogs know how to be happy with only the autonomy of their shameless spirit…” ― Pablo Neruda SOURCE WIKIPEDIA -Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda, was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician. Neruda became known as a poet […]
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