Vintage Women and Their Dogs

~ YesBiscuit
Country Life Illustrated, April 3, 1897
Country Life Illustrated, April 10, 1897
A. S. R. (1897, June 19). Some ladies’ dogs. Country Life Illustrated, pp. 668-669
Dogdom, May 1911
The Rural New-Yorker, January 25, 1913
Vanity Fair, March 1917
Vanity Fair, May 1917
Vanity Fair, July 1917
Actress Elsie Janis, dubbed “the sweetheart of the A. E. F.*” as she was among the first popular American artists to entertain the troops overseas in World War I, with her Pekingese.
*American Expeditionary Forces
Image from Vanity Fair, August 1917
A sketch by Myrtle Held accompanying a fictional interview with an actress in Vanity Fair, November 1917
German shepherd puppies with their breeder in Connecticut
Vanity Fair, December 1917
Vanity Fair, May 1918
At the Ladies’ Kennel Association show, 1918
Vanity Fair, August 1918
“I imagined that people avoided me – perhaps they did!” (because the skin on my face was so hideous before I started using this fancy soap) A full page ad catering to women, and including a borzoi, in Vanity Fair, April 1917
Kitty Gordon, pictured holding a tiny dog in this ad from Vanity Fair, April 1917, was an English stage and silent film actress born in 1878. She lived to be 96.

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