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RESTORATION- 1918 Captain Massey and his two chows

1918 Captain Massey (Davidson) with his two chows was written on the back of this very faded 100+ year old press photo. I am still researching who this man was and where he served using newspaper articles as my guide. The nearest I can guess is he is Canadian. If anyone else can ID this […]

RESTORATION-1930’s US Navy man with his Chow mascot onboard ship

RESTORATION- Circa 1930 Navy man with the ship’s mascot chow. I simply had to have this snapshot and was so happy to find it in very good condition for its’ age.  The details really popped forward when I did some work on contrast and converted it to black and white. I love the text “Pals” […]

1924 Chow mascot “Sing” aboard the U.S.S. West Virginia battleship

Circa 1924 this news clipping was a nice find adding to the growing collection of Chow mascot used aboard ships between the late 1800’s and 1940.  The photo of the chow was even darker than this so I tried to restore some detail in photoshop with little success.  Regardless you can certainly tell its a […]

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