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1906 Chicago White Sox Record holder Frank Isbell and his Best in Show Chow

I worked so hard to get this newspaper clipping above to give more detail. The original was almost totally black. The man behind the adult chow is baseball legend of the Chicago White Sox Frank Isbell who held the world’s record for hits in 1906 (see bio below) Frank Isbell’s chow pictured, Ch. […]

LEGACY BREEDER -Miss Armyne Gordon and her chows- England

MORE ON MISS GORDON IS ON THE WAY. THIS IS JUST A PLACE FOR ME TO GATHER MY MATERIALS FOR THE ARTICLE. ENJOY WHAT IS HERE SO FAR

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 […]