THE CHOWTALES PHOTO RESTORATION PROJECT

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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 – 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 […]

RESTORATION – 1920s Children with their wet Chow on the beach

This is one of those photos I had big doubts I was going to be able to resurrect or even show there could be a Chow in it. The image was incredibly faded, scratched, filled with grain and ink spatter when it arrived in the mail (I was aware of that when I purchased it) […]