Back when dog show news made the largest newspapers and National headlines (mostly pre WWII) Chow Specialties were many times first announced in one paper, then results reported the day following the grand event.

I have documented each of these shows I have unearthed using period newspaper clippings and vintage archive images.
CHECK THE LEFT COLUMN FOR THE ENTIRE LISTING OF ARTICLES

1932 National Specialty won by Ch. Yang Fu Tang

For the time being this is a holding area for the images I will be writing an article about. CLICK TO READ MORE ABOUT YANG FU TANG HERE

1918 ARTICLE- Rare images of breeders and chows. Mention of first Chow specialty to come in 1920

Note: text in red can be clicked on to read more This circa 1918 newspaper article is filled to the brim with some very rare and fascinating material . To begin with, the photos feature one of the most famous and discerning chow breeders in American history , Mrs Virginia Waller (left) who owned […]

1941 National Specialty – Best of Breed bitch – Ch. Ho Han Beautiful

The photo on the magazine cover which I discovered in one of my old Dog News magazines was a really special find, as I had been searching for YEARS for any image of “Beautiful” to add to the archives. Recently I was paging through yet another edition of Dog News from 1940 and here was […]