Illustrator: Paul de Vos.

Frans Snyders,1590.

Comforter (Lap Dog), 1807, Bewick.

Illustration from 'The Illustrated Natural History' (Mammalia), published in 1853 showing the conformation of a Turnspit Dog.

The 'Snuffelaar'just a funny popular cheap copy from Buffon's Chien de Berger (Shepherd Dog).
See the dog at the top of this image from one of Buffon's versions.

Picture from a Dutch publication with the very intelligent subtitle of "Snuffelaar" sniffler, Schnüffler, Canis odorator).
Circa 1780.

Manuel-Castellano,1853.
Ambassador of France and bordeauxdog.

Museo del Prado.

Manuel-Castellano,1853.
Ambassador of France and bordeauxdog.

Museo del Prado.
(Detail)

The Karafuto-Ken is a beloved Japanese sledding dog, currently facing extinction. In 2011, there were only two known purebreds left in Japan. The breed comes from the island of Sakhalin (known in Japanese as Karafuto), which is a large Russian island in the North Pacific Ocean.
Captioned: (北海道) 雪中の犬橇 Hokkaido. Dog sledding in the snow.

This dog named Cangni ("Dark Blue Lion”) was a purebred Tibetan Mastiff, offered by Fu Qing, Tibetan vice-provisional governor.
Painting from 1750, Castiglione.

Tied up during the day, let loose at night. Engraving from the mid 1800's, English.

Mrs. F. M. Higgs's Black & Tan Terrier.

In the 1800s Pit Bulls were often called "nanny dogs" because of the protective behavior they exhibit around children.

Old gentleman with 5 Staffordshire Bullterriers.
The gentleman is the actor Tom Walls.The picture is from 1938 and it is out off Dieter Fleig, staffordshire bullterrier,1988.

This dog is listed as a Pekingese spaniel in The Windsor Magazine (1898). His name was Little Billee and belonged to the Princess of Wales.

Pictured with his 2 Akitas in 1899.

Informal portrait of John Brown with Queen Victoria's Dogs. Balmoral c. 1880

Margarte with 6 Irish wolfhounds

Mrs Handley Spicer’s Griffons at exercise. Besides several brood bitches, the group includes Ch Copthorne Wiseacre, Ch C Lobster, C Betty, C Josephine, the veteran C Pasha, C Wizard, and Ch C Treasure. Photo is from the early 1900s.

Kaasen, musher of Balto's teamwith Balto and his other dogs, 1925.

Dobermann is the man on the left.

The dog seated at his feet is Schnuppe, the mongrel farm dog that Dobermann bred to a “butcher’s dog” (Rottweiler) to found his strain.
Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann was the first breeder of Doberman Pinscher. He started the creation of this dog breed in the town of Apolda, in the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach around 1890, following the Franco-Prussian War.

Courtesy of Dundee Township Historical Society.When she was 12 years old, her father brought home an Irish Setter. After graduating from the Convent of the Sacred Heart High School in Chicago, she began raising, training and showing Setters.

Labradors.
The Labrador Retriever was inducted into the AKC Registry in 1917.

Photo published in Illustrated Universal Sport No. 1621 of March 24th, 1934.

Borzois at Sandringham Kennels, 1898.
Illustration 'The Dog Book' 1906.

Bull fighting in Spain with the assistance of Alano dogs.

Francisco de Goya (1646-1728).

Jacobus de Jonckheer 1661-1684.

In 1873 Mr. F. Adcock bought several copies in Madrid , including " Toro" dark red brindle and " Alfonso " fawn with white spots and black mask. Toro , the most popular of the more referrals you have in spite of not having found any pictures of him- please, we are looking for photographs-. It was recorded in the Book of Origins of the British Kennel Club with the number 2655 , as the son of " Bonhome " and "Lisbon "

Author : Ignacio Martinez .

In 1873 Mr. F. Adcock bought several copies in Madrid , including " Toro" dark red brindle and " Alfonso " fawn with white spots and black mask. Toro , the most popular of the more referrals you have in spite of not having found any pictures of him- please, we are looking for photographs-. It was recorded in the Book of Origins of the British Kennel Club with the number 2655 , as the son of " Bonhome " and "Lisbon "

Author : Ignacio Martinez .

One of the great pioneers of the Chow breed in England in the 1920s and beyond was Mrs. Mannooch, pictured above with her Choonam Chows.

A line-up in the late 1940s.

Two promoters of the Dobermans breed in the U.S.A. with their dogs.
Legend and illustration as appearing in a German Edition.

On the photo champion of the USSR Westa (2nd left), champion of the USSR Almaz (third from left) with their offspring, the first litter of breeder E.Rozenberg (with Almaz). 1st left Armagh, 4th left Arna, 5th from left, Arthur, 6th left Aza. Litter was born 23 of February, 1963.

After Tess Henseler of vom Arthal Dobermans watched a performance by the Lippizaner horses of Vienna, she starts the Doberman Drill Team. Their performances include Madison Square Gardens in New York City at the Westminster Kennel Club show, 1950s.

Press Photograph: Four Bulldogs Crufts competitors.

Rancho Gabriel was the kennel name used by Lyle and Phydelma Gillette, Borzoi breeders in California. Their involvement with the breed began in the 1950's and extended for more than 35 years into the 1990's.

Tiller Girls walking their Borzoi dogs,1952.

This is an original rotogravure picture section from the Los Angeles Sunday Times, June 25, 1925. This four-page, double-sided section includes images of Anona M. Lemmon with two Borzoi dogs.

Postcard, 1965.

A kennel-maid from Ifield Kennels takes to a bicycle to exercise two French Poodles, May 12th, 1938.

Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images.

Miss M. Richmond, owner of the 'Kennel Bridge Sollers Deerhounds', the largest kennel of this ancient breed in its day.

Raymond Oppenheimer of Ormandy Bull Terriers was the genius in Bullterrier breed and created the type.

Raymond Oppenheimer of Ormandy Bull Terriers was the genius in Bullterrier breed and created the type.

Raymond Oppenheimer of Ormandy Bull Terriers was the genius in Bullterrier breed and created the type.

Balto and Gunner Kaassen.

Gunnar Kaasen, musher of Balto's teamwith Balto and his other dogs, 1925.Kaasen, musher of Balto's teamwith Balto and his other dogs, 1925.

Balto models for memorial, from the Cleveland Memory Project.

Balto models for memorial, from the Cleveland Memory Project.