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1898 ARTICLE – NY Paper reports of the new fad in London of owning Chow dogs.

  I am heading up this very early newspaper article from our breed history with another outstanding find in my personal archives.  It depicts just 3 years after the article, a chow dog being “catered” to in the famous Kensington Gardens of London.  It sets into perspective how quickly this Chow fad took hold in […]

1912 Actress Grace La Rue with a chow in her roadster

UPDATE!! CHECK OUT THE PHOTOS I FOUND OF CHANG OF PEKOE AT THIS LINK This was an unexpected find in a  1912 newspaper, which was part of an ad for the WHITE SELF STARTING ROADSTER.   Sitting pretty with a chow owned by Edward L. Pretorius of the St. Louis Times is vaudeville actress Grace La […]

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 […]

UPDATED -1922 Gentleman Jim Corbett heavyweight champion and his chow Foo

UPDATED:The above image is a new addition to the archives  added on November 19, 2021  (original post written in 2016).  This was the restoration I was certain I couldn’t pull off, but with patience and taking a HUGE risk on a 100 year old photo with WATER…..I was able to tease the gum backed tape […]

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