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1912 Actress Grace La Rue with a chow in her roadster

UPDATE!! CHECK OUT THE PHOTOS I FOUND OF CHANG OF PEKOE AT THIS LINK This was an unexpected find in a 1912 newspaper, which was part of an ad for the WHITE SELF STARTING ROADSTER. Sitting pretty with a chow owned by Edward L. Pretorius of the St. Louis Times is vaudeville actress Grace La […]

1932 National Specialty won by Ch. Yang Fu Tang

For the time being this is a holding area for the images I will be writing an article about. CLICK TO READ MORE ABOUT YANG FU TANG HERE

1918 ARTICLE- Rare images of breeders and chows. Mention of first Chow specialty to come in 1920

Note: text in red can be clicked on to read more This circa 1918 newspaper article is filled to the brim with some very rare and fascinating material . To begin with, the photos feature one of the most famous and discerning chow breeders in American history , Mrs Virginia Waller (left) who owned […]