When I discovered this gorgeous image of British actor Barry Baxter and set out to find a bio on him, I was so sad to learn this handsome young man only lived to 27 years of age. The chow he is pictured with is reminiscent of many of the lovely chows in the early […]
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It is amazing how many of the rich and famous... from silent films, to politics, and socialites adored their chows. The breed was quite the status symbol in America from the turn of the century through the 1940's and many stars even showed chows.
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1906 Chicago White Sox Record holder Frank Isbell and his Best in Show Chow
I worked so hard to get this newspaper clipping above to give more detail. The original was almost totally black. The man behind the adult chow is baseball legend of the Chicago White Sox Frank Isbell who held the world’s record for hits in 1906 (see bio below) Frank Isbell’s chow pictured, Ch. […]
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 […]
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