Antique Dog Photos' photostream  

Had to put my photos on a bit of a lock down due to abuse. Sorry. I am a strong advocate for copyright and do not tolerate abusers. Photos are here for you to enjoy, not steal.

Copyright notice: If you are interested in any sort of use of any of these images - please contact me at dogs.hope @ gmail.com (remove spaces). They are not free for you to use.

I prefer to tell the truth, of course from my own perspective. May step on toes. Have a great deal of respect for some of the wonderful people and images here.

i am working my way through my mother's slides, only posting a few where I know the people or the event or think they may add to our knowledge. I have a pile of old photos to work on as well - life here pretty busy with way too many dogs in my rescue shelter. Thank goodness to have an outlet and a bit of a chance to connect with the outside world.

Most of my subjects are animals (dogs) or the natural world - I live in a wooded area, surrounded by agricultural fields, am very interested in documenting, and encouraging an interest in preservation, as well as responsible animal relationships.

Previously I scanned some of my drawings. Hope you enjoy looking at them. Please do not use these pictures on a web site or for any commercial purpose - they are property of my brother and myself. If you really see something you would like to use - send email.

All of the drawings, with one exception are by me. The pictures come from many sources, mostly found, but some I have taken.

Most of the old photos were collected by my brother, known as MrWaterslide on flickr. These photos give a pretty good picture of domestic life (with dogs) in the United States (a few from England or Scotland) over the past century.


When I was young I did not take pictures, but both of my parents did. They took mostly slides with a 35 mm camera. We would have slide shows from time to time (someday I hope to be able to look at some of these images again). My father had an enlarger (kept in his darkroom at his office where they developed x-rays). I remember going with him to make some prints.

Brother John and I did not take pictures - I think it was just too expensive. I did have a brownie camera, but I didn't get to use it much at all. I was also quite interested in drawing.

I got my first really usable camera when I was in graduate school as a give away for opening a bank account. Most of the slides posted up here and on my other flickr site were taken with that camera.

I got a professional 35 mm camera in about 1979. It was still really expensive to take lots of photos although I was very interested in photography.

My interest is both with dogs (I have a rescue shelter for dogs) and photography. I am a retired librarian, now working as a volunteer at the local public library. I visit flickr and my flickr friends very often It is one of the best deals on the Internet.


I have another my other flickr site where I post up pictures of my dogs and my own photographs.