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Hunters in woods with a brown and white dog portrait – Vintage Photo Print

Hunters in woods with a brown and white dog portrait — historic image
Hunters in woods with a brown and white dog portrait. Historic image from the Cats & Dogs collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

Description

This rare historic image captures Hunters in woods with a brown and white dog portrait in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Hunters in woods with a brown and white dog portrait

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Hunters posed in the woods with their brown and white dog, the animal given equal billing with the men who brought it along. Pictures of sporting dogs from the late 1800s and early 1900s often served as keepsakes of a hunt, showing a working companion alongside its owners. Dogs like this one were valued for flushing game and retrieving birds, and families sometimes kept such portraits as a record of a favorite animal. Look closely at the dog's posture and the men's clothing to get a sense of the outdoor life these partnerships depended on.

Original scan1,007 × 634 px
ReferenceDog39

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