#history dog

[darkwood-sleddog]

got on to the subject of libraries with mr d while having dinner. he looks up his college library to show me. finds out sled dogs delivered the first books when it opened. excuse me??

[kimiko24]

DOG MOSAICS (From Italy and Greece ××)

[bebs-art-gallery]

Dog sculptures turned golden from tourists petting them throughout the years

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Corn dogs are named for their traditional meat, the unicorn. As unicorns are now extinct, they can only be referred to properly as ‘Corn Dogs and not “Unicorn Dogs” as they were prior to 2009.

[dogposts]

An archivist found a long forgotten 8mm film reel in an old metal box, marked "Philippines 1942". Thinking it was lost WWII footage, he sent it in to be restored/digitized. When he got the footage back, he found puppies instead

[lotus-pear]

soukoku as one of my dearest renaissance paintings

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe and Lassie at Ray Anthony’s party in Hollywood, 1952.

[rainbow-gend3r]

Sputnik 2, launched on November 3, 1957, carried the dog Laika, the first living creature to be shot into space and orbit Earth. Laika was a stray dog found on the streets of Moscow. There were no plans to return her to Earth, and she lived only a few hours in orbit. …

taken from @gallivantsofgillis on tiktok

[itsbansheebitch]

(Approx.) 4th Century BCE Good Boys

[szczekaczz]

Charles Burton Barber, Noble (1881)

[the-cricket-chirps]

Giacomo Balla

Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash

1912

[darkwood-sleddog]

Eva "Short" Seeley, the mother of the modern Alaskan Malamute, running dog teams in the early 1930s.

I recognize a couple of very distinctive early malamutes, including dogs from the very first litter born in 1929, Gripp of Yukon and Kearsage of Yukon (potentially their littermate Finn of Yukon also). Lovely to see how little these dogs have changed since their inception.

Finn (left) and Kearsage (right) below:

[yesterdaysprint]

Good Morning (by the Daily Mirror), England, May 20, 1943

[pierog]

IM GAY BITCH

petitioning the 1986 homosexual reform bill, from mates & lovers (a history of gay new zealand) by chris brickell

[canisalbus]

What if I told you that RoobrickMarine went and wrote an entire novella starring my 16th century dog couple? It's very canon-adjacent, well researched and thoughtfully put together, has inspired me a ton during these past months and it's now publicly available at AO3. I highly recommend it.

✦ Separation ✦

[sgtgrunt0331-3]

A U.S. Marine looks up from his foxhole at his husky scouting dog during the Battle of Guam in August 1944.

(Photo by W. Eugene Smith)