The painting you see above is one I have always looked at with fascination (and with squinted eyes) since my early years in Chows. In “The Book of the Chow Chow” by Samuel Draper, this hanging scroll is reproduced in black and white on page 14. The book was published well before all the wonderful […]
EARLIEST MENTIONS OF IMPORTED CHOWS FROM CHINA
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This category may contain duplicates of posts found in other categories on this site, but I felt they needed to also be grouped into a special category of their own for ease of research sake. You will find some of the earliest mentions of Chinese chows , chowlike imports from China, and early chow likenesses in art and photos in these posts. Some you may need to scroll around a bit but the references are there (eg stud book entries ...look for Chinese imports)
1913 ARTICLE- THE DOG THAT ADMIRAL DEWEY MADE FAMOUS WAS A CHOW
SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri) · Sun, May 25, 1913 NOTE: As is the case in many of the articles I post from bygone eras, one must look past the sterotypes of the day and just absorb the content that is of real historical importance to our ancient Chow breed. THIS WONDERFUL ARTICLE […]
1912 Mrs Overton shows her Chinese import chow in Los Angeles
Charming newspaper images of chows and their owners are rarely found in such beautiful condition. Newsprint bleeds or darkens over time. Many times only the dog or owner will be visible. This clipping from a Los Angeles newspaper tells one of the earliest Chinese chow imports to the west coast being exhibited in Southern California. […]
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