THE CHOWTALES PHOTO RESTORATION PROJECT

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RESTORATION- 1910 large format chow puppy photos

Yesterday I worked on restoring these 112 year old, Cira 1910 large format photos. This is so early in western chow history it makes me ponder was this puppy from England or a Chinese import. Very unusual to have such professional and large photos of a chow…..and a puppy no less The photo paper is […]

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 – Beautiful early 1900’s gelatin silver photo headstudy of a chow

CIRCA Early 1900’s- This is a very large photo for its time with an unusual editing process used to “cut out” this stunning headstudy of a chow. I’m guessing it may have been an image used for newspapers judging by the high quality and the “white out” looking technique on the coat/mane edges. The original […]