Archives for 2016

LEGACY BREEDER -Miss Armyne Gordon and her chows- England

MORE ON MISS GORDON IS ON THE WAY. THIS IS JUST A PLACE FOR ME TO GATHER MY MATERIALS FOR THE ARTICLE. ENJOY WHAT IS HERE SO FAR

Marie Dressler – Vaudeville and silent film actress and her black chow

I discovered this photo in a 1933 newspaper, and while I couldn’t get the black chow to come up any clearer, it is still a nice record of Marie Dressler having owned a chow. This snippet below from a Google search mentions Marie Dressler visiting a friend who had a litter of chow puppies in […]

LATE 1800’S Eton Schoolboy and his chow – Rare set of albumen prints

These two sepia “albumen prints” you see in the collage above are in my private collection. Both of the same Eton School boy with his Chow, in two different poses, presumably from the same photoshoot. To add to this rarity, I purchased each of these photographs from 2 different sources , years apart…both from the […]