The year 1897 marked Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, celebrating sixty years as England's monarch. In the February 20 issue of Country Life Illustrated, the queen's dogs received their own tribute, snippets of which follow. Included are collies, Pomeranians, a Skye terrier and Italian mountaineer dogs - a type of sheepdog.

Country Life Illustrated, January 23, 1897 The Breeder and Sportsman, December 13, 1902 Country-side, May 1913 Why not? Vanity Fair, August 1916 Vanity Fair, January 1917 Vanity Fair, February 1917 Vanity Fair, February 1917 Vanity Fair, March 1917 Vanity Fair, March 1917 Vanity Fair, May 1917 Vanity Fair, May 1917 Source: Williams, L. (1919). A … Continue reading Vintage Dogs: Smols

Actress, icon and dog lover Bette Davis was born on April 5, 1908, in Lowell, Massachusetts. As lifetime president of the Tailwaggers Society, a canine care and advocacy organization in southern California, she hosted a fundraising event in 1938. Numerous Hollywood stars attended and the fundraiser was well covered by the press. This puppy was raffled, … Continue reading Born on This Day: Bette Davis

Sussex spaniels, brother and sister, from the kennel of Campbell Newington in Suffolk, pictured in Country Life, October 15, 1904 The Breeder and Sportsman, October 30, 1909 A little Scottie poetry for your consideration: Country-side, June 1913 Vanity Fair, July 1916 Wycollar Boy, a wire fox terrier owned by Mrs. Roy A. Rainey in Vanity … Continue reading More Random Vintage Dogs

Country Life, November 19, 1904 The painting referenced in the above letter, Diana of the Uplands, by Charles Wellington Furse (1903-1904): Source: Wikimedia Commons Country Life, December 3, 1904 Lilla Ives with a black Pomeranian. Source: Ives, L. (1911). Show Pomeranians. Manchester: Our Dogs Publishing Co. Actress Elsie Janis, dubbed "the sweetheart of the A. … Continue reading Vintage Women and their Dogs

Another installment of tales from turn of the century periodicals invoking our timeless bond with dogs: Source: Animal life and the world of nature: a magazine of natural history throughout the world, Volume I, July 1902 - June 1903 This absurd image stays in my head and I'm glad.The Country-side Monthly, November 1911 Country-side, July … Continue reading Dog Stories Three

Two photos of the Devon and Somerset staghounds in Country Life Illustrated, January 23, 1897 English setters and pointers on a railway platform with a dog box in Country Life Illustrated, January 30, 1897 Sussex spaniels from the kennel of Campbell Newington in Suffolk, pictured hunting in Country Life, October 15, 1904 Fox terriers, a … Continue reading Vintage Dogs with Jobs

Source: Megargee, E. (1954). The dog dictionary. [1st ed.]. Cleveland, Ohio: World Pub. Co. We don't harr much about harriers, vintage or otherwise, so harr's a post to fix that. (I know the second one was too much. I know it but I did it anyway.) In The Kennel Club Calendar and Stud Book, Vol. III - … Continue reading Vintage Harriers