SDCA National Specialty: Catalogs, 2004

The collection has a fairly wide variety of types of materials that may appeal to a variety of researchers. The particular strength of the collection lies in its specialty show catalogs, collected ephemera, and foreign materials.

Series 1: Club Records contains some of the official records of the SDCA's operations. Of particular note here are the materials from regional clubs, especially regional club newsletters, which may have more detailed and region-based knowledge on the breed and club operations.

Series 2: The Claymore contains a run of club's main publication but also contains some files maintained by the Claymore staff including some submitted illustrations, photographs, and history of the breed. More issues of The Claymore can be found on the Library shelves at the AKC.

Series 3: Collected Materials and Ephemera includes the bulk of the photographs and American pedigrees that are within the collection. The scrapbooks may be of particular interest as they contain both photographs and clippings across a breadth of years giving a curated picture of the breed's history.

Series 4: Shows mainly contains catalogs of shows with the bulk of them being National Specialty shows and Futirities held by the SDCA.

Series 5: Foreign Materials includes the variety of foreign materials collected by the club. Most of the material included is publications from these foreign clubs, but researchers may also find catalogs from Australian and English shows as well as several books of English and Australian pedigrees. Not all the materials in this series are in English as some of the publications in this series come from Finland and The Netherlands.