Centuries Old Photographs Show Our Immortal Love of Dogs

[Tin Can]

https://petapixel.com/2022/09/02/cen...-love-of-dogs/

Good dogs

[Tin Can]

Bought the book

I won’t have another dog

[John Layton]

Ha! I had to laugh at the first photo of the sled-pulling dog - reminding me that our beloved Lena (lab-mix rescue), can pull mightily, which is actually very welcome when we hike together with the two of us tied together via. a stretchy, waist-mounted lead - making steep hills a bit easier to climb!

[r_a_feldman]

I guess ~180 years old qualifies as "Centuries Old", but only if you round up.

[Richard Wasserman]

I guess ~180 years old qualifies as "Centuries Old", but only if you round up.

Or unless you consider Nicéphore Niépce who made photographic images, although impermanent, around 1816. Also Josiah Wedgwood—yes, that Wedgwood of pottery fame—experimented with silver nitrate in the 1790s. It took a while for photography as we know it to be perfected

[Mark Sampson]

But neither Niepce or Wedgwood are known to have photographed any dogs. And as Niepce's earliest known photograph took all day in sunlight to expose, any dog would have to have been sleeping...
I haven't looked at the link- my dog wants his evening walk now. See the pet pictures thread. But it would be interesting to see the earliest known photograph with a dog as the subject. Perhaps Hill & Adamson did?