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This category contains photography collections, organized by subject images that relate to one another in some way. Some will be groupings of family photos from an estate that I want to keep together, other collections may be very specific subject matter such as "Babies with Puppies". I hope you enjoy all of these stunning images, most in my personal collection , lovingly restored. Images are copyright ©Sandra Miller and ©ChowTales

COLLECTION – Smooth Chow Photos from various sources (pre 1960)

Below I am gathering together photos and other depictions of some of the early smooths in America , Europe and China,  to give an overall picture of how this beautiful coat variety had changed very little before 1950.  When the smooth chow was removed from the American Standard in the 1940’s the majority of the limited […]

COLLECTION – Circa 1924 – Photo collection from England – Possibly Mrs David Wagstaff of Ledgeland Kennels – USA

I am pinching myself!!!!  What an incredible discovery!!!!   8 photos (11 total) originating from England of a chow breeder/exhibitor …… and to top it off I have 3 more photos from a different source that picture this same woman showing the light colored chow you see in the group shot below. Those will in […]

CURATED COLLECTION – Chows and Antique Cars

I’m sure you can tell by the ChowTales logo I designed that my favorite Chow collectible is ephemera showing Chows with old cars.   I have been working on restoring  the ones in my private collection for years and now have enough of them to make a decent Curated Collection in the archive.  Many of these […]

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