Vintage Dog Illustrations

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The alligator style spaniel, popular at the time.
Source: Mills, W. (1895). The dog in health and in disease. New York: D. Appleton
Source: Mills, W. (1895). The dog in health and in disease. New York: D. Appleton
Source: Biggle, J. (1900). Biggle pet book. Philadelphia: W. Atkinson
Illustration by Winifred Austen in Animal life and the world of nature: a magazine of natural history throughout the world, Volume I, July 1902 – June 1903
Illustration by William Thomas Smedley in the animal rights book A Dog’s Tale by Mark Twain, first published in 1903
Country-side, March 1913
Cover of Vanity Fair, August 1916
Dachshund in a raincoat from House Beautiful, October 1934
An etching by Victor G. Becker makes a nice header to this article in Country Life & the Sportsman, May 1938
Country Life and the Sportsman, March 1939
Ad in Vanity Fair, August 1916
Vanity Fair, September 1916
Vanity Fair, September 1916
Vanity Fair, November 1916
Vanity Fair, March 1917
A full page car ad including a sketch of a greyhound in Vanity Fair, March 1917
Another full page car ad in Vanity Fair, March 1917
Cute or creepy?
Vanity Fair, April 1917
In the lead up to the U.S. entry to World War I, the German Shepherd Dog Club of America was, in this ad in Vanity Fair, April 1917, encouraging people to buy and train dogs in case they were needed for military service. Although the ad copy would have been submitted in advance, America did enter the war in early April 1917.

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