Archives for 2016

1907 Articles- Who Dyed Chin Chino? Accusations fly – First Chow Club president

The two Circa 1907 articles below are pretty amazing and extremely entertaining. They both report a quarrel and law suit between Miss. Ada Olive Van Heusen who would later become Mrs. E.K.Lincoln (GREENACRE KENNELS) and The Belgian Princess Montglyon who was the Chow Chow Club of America’s first president in 1906. I have over […]

Book – The Chow Chow – A Complete Anthology of the Dog

The Chow Chow – A Complete Anthology of the Dog gathers together all the best early writings on the breed from a British library of scarce, out-of-print antiquarian books and documents and reprints it in a quality, modern edition. This anthology includes chapters taken from a comprehensive range of books, many of them now rare […]

1916 Charlie Chaplin – Chow tracks down silent movie icon in New York City

In my ongoing quest for that elusive photograph of Charlie Chaplin with a chow, I ran into this funny little article circa 1916 with a great illustration of Chaplin being “hunted down” by a chow dog while visiting New York. There wasn’t a soul who didn’t know who Charlie Chaplin was so hiding in the […]