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Marie Dressler – Vaudeville and silent film actress and her black chow

I discovered this photo in a 1933  newspaper, and while I couldn’t get the black chow to come up any clearer, it is still a nice record of Marie Dressler having owned a chow. This snippet below from a Google search mentions Marie Dressler visiting a friend who had a litter of chow puppies in […]

LATE 1800’S Eton Schoolboy and his chow – Rare set of albumen prints

These two sepia “albumen prints”  you see in the collage above are in my private collection. Both of the same Eton School boy with his Chow, in two different poses, presumably from the same photoshoot.  To add to this rarity, I purchased each of these photographs from 2 different sources , years apart…both from the […]

1913 ARTICLE- THE DOG THAT ADMIRAL DEWEY MADE FAMOUS WAS A CHOW

 SOURCE:  St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri) · Sun, May 25, 1913 NOTE: As is the case in many of the articles I post from  bygone eras, one must look past the sterotypes of the day and just absorb the content that is of real historical importance to our ancient Chow breed. THIS WONDERFUL ARTICLE […]

Vintage Chow Valentine greetings

Above and below are 2 antique die cut Valentine cards from my own collection.  The one above I purchased at an antique store about 20 years ago and at the time was a VERY expensive price.  But you know when you FALL IN LOVE…you just can’t resist.   It turned out to be a very sound […]

Author – Dr. Fernand Mery -Le Chow Chow – Published 1970

The photo you see above is of the esteemed author, veterinarian,  and dog lover Fernand Mery with 2 of his dogs .  I acquired this gorgeous original 8×10 studio photo a few years ago because I had 2 copies of his book”Le Chow Chow”,  and loved having this image to go with them. In researching […]

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