This very interesting article circa May 1, 1911 from Country Life In America Magazine highlights insiders secrets for importing chows from Hong Kong and Canton into America. After visiting Hong Kong a number of times myself in recent years, it comes as no surprise that the suggested best place to find good chow puppies was […]
Princess Marie Bonaparte and TOPSY The Story of a Golden Haired Chow
Princess Marie Bonaparte sitting on Oscar Nemon’s Sculpture of Topsy, Paris, 1961 First edition published in 1940, TOPSY, is a psychoanalytic tale of the effects of a dog on its owner; the analyst is the great Marie Bonaparte. Only after being told that her chow had cancer did she realize the attachment she developed to […]
1940’S Gordon Bread recipe card advertisement by artist Jack Murray
THIS RARE ART GEM IN MY PRIVATE COLLECTION IS BY THE RENOWNED SATURDAY EVENING POST ILLUSTRATOR JACK MURRAY In the 1940s-50’s, the Gordon Bread Company was a busy,well-established, Los Angeles-based bakery company with a 1920s-era manufacturing facility on Santa Barbara Avenue (known today as Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard), just southwest of downtown. The company […]
1907 Articles- Who Dyed Chin Chino? Accusations fly – First Chow Club president
The two Circa 1907 articles below are pretty amazing and extremely entertaining. They both report a quarrel and law suit between Miss. Ada Olive Van Heusen who would later become Mrs. E.K.Lincoln (GREENACRE KENNELS) and The Belgian Princess Montglyon who was the Chow Chow Club of America’s first president in 1906. I have over […]
Book – The Chow Chow – A Complete Anthology of the Dog
The Chow Chow – A Complete Anthology of the Dog gathers together all the best early writings on the breed from a British library of scarce, out-of-print antiquarian books and documents and reprints it in a quality, modern edition. This anthology includes chapters taken from a comprehensive range of books, many of them now rare […]
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