About Antique Dog Photos / J Van Noate  

Lately I have been scanning in some of my drawings. After looking a dozens of these, it is clear to me that my main passion is for animals. I made many others, flowers, nudes, landscapes, etc, but the inspired drawings are of animals. 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 also a librarian, web developer and amateur photographer. I visit flickr and my flickr friends very often It has got to be one of the best deals on the Internet.

Please do not use these pictures on a web site or for any commercial purpose - they are property of my brother and myself.


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