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Circa 1896- Photo of puppy class at the Ladies Kennel Association show – England

LADIES KENNEL ASSOCIATION  THE FIRST 100 YEARS  (photo credit)   – The puppy class circa 1896 The article below was one of two  that I had saved for reference written by Nic Waters of Dog World UK magazine, which no longer exists since July 2017.   The photo was so tiny and I did my […]

Circa 1903 – Hildewell Tao Mu- Article , photos and artwork

SOURCE: HAMSHERE GALLERY  – HILDEWELL TAO MU BY ARTIST MONICA GRAY The article below is by Nic Waters, talented writer for Dog World UK.. This outstanding magazine unfortunately closed for business recently, and  I am so glad I saved this article for reference and felt it would disappear altogether if I didn’t archive it here […]

1937 TRAUDL STARK – Austrian born child actress with a chow

Thank you so much to ChowTales reader Jeff Austin, for letting me know about this lovely photo up for auction of Traudl Stark.  I know I have this somewhere in my collection and could not find it to save me, so I went ahead and purchased this original very large 5×7 original  cigarette photo card […]

The Kennel Club – England’s earliest chow studbook entries donated by Chris Clucas

A couple of weeks ago, Chris Clucas in the U.K. sent me multiple emails filled with scanned pages from The Kennel Club stud book and register dating back to 1902. This is such a valuable addition to the ChowTales archive for reference and research….you have no idea how grateful I am to have access to these historic […]

1950 Travelers Insurance advertisement with chow

I (In the private collection of Sandra Miller) What an unusual ad this is……the 1940s-1950’s public image of our chow breed, was certainly not the best,  according to the many articles and newspaper reports of dog bites I keep running into from these decades. Chows had quite the reputation as being unpredictable and aggressive, due […]

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