my nana and her dogs, a series ❤️ @ahistoryofdogs.bsky.social

Paris, 1955.⁣ Photo by Pierre Boulat

Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American Oscar winner (“Gone With the Wind,” 1939) in 1951. She was the special guest presenter of graduation certificates for dogs and owners at International Guide Dogs, Inc., today’s Guide Dogs of America, in Southern California. Photo courtesy of the AKC.

Camouflage!

1914.

Who’s watching the Westminster Dog Show??

The winning answer that Tatiana Castro gave to the final question during the 1994 Miss Colombia competition. Minutes later she was crowned Miss Colombia.

In 2021, Finley set the Guinness World Record for “most tennis balls held in the mouth by a dog.”⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Finley, a Golden Retriever from Canandaigua, NY, has loved tennis balls since he was a puppy.

A stele depicting a fight between a dog and a cat. 510 BCE, relief from the Kerameikos necropolis in Athens, Greece. Now on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.

Dog eating snow in the West Village, 1988.⁣ 📸: Andy Levin

BBC News, February 11, 1983.

American singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist Lena Horne with her pug Nellie. Horne was the first African-American star to sign a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio (MGM).⁣⁣ 🧵1/3

Art by @lovesomedove.bsky.social

1905.

Portrait of Bianca degli Utili Maselli and Her Children, ca. 1604-5. Oil on canvas, 39 x 53 1/4 in. Portrait by Lavinia Fontana (Italian, 1552-1614).⁣ Bianca degli Utili Maselli (1568-1605) was a Roman noblewoman who bore 19 children before dying from complications of childbirth at the age of 37. ⁣

“A Very Small Dog”, Jamie Wyeth, 1980, Oil on Canvas.

Dog of Randall the Jeweler, ca. 1875.

Still figuring things out here. I’ll kick off my Bluesky debut with some old favorites. Stay tuned.

All dogs are good dogs.