Doberman pinscher

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This group of materials includes Premium Lists and catalogs (marked and unmarked) from the DPCA's annual National Specialty shows. Catalogs for Top Twenty events and a Futurity Stake Handbook are also included.

Scope and Contents This series consists of visual depictions, including scrapbooks, photographs, and video footage, of the DPCA's annual National Specialty shows. The annual scrapbooks and photograph compilations were created by DPCA and consist mostly of win shots with identifying information such as dog name, class, and placement. Catalog pages, judge biographies, candid photographs, and information on the show location are included in some scrapbooks. There are several photo collages with candid...

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Includes objects and ephemera from the DPCA's National Specialty shows, such as trophies, medallions, pins and other items imprinted with the show logo, and signs. These items are a small representation of the trophies and other awards bestowed and keepsakes created by the DPCA for its National Specialty shows over the years.

Scope and Contents These materials consist mostly of photographs and video footage from Chapter Club Specialty shows. Also included are some show advertisements and medallions given as gifts to judges at such shows.The Doberman Pinscher Club of Houston file is a scrapbook also containing images from the Houston Kennel Club all-breed show, clippings, correspondence, and other materials documenting dog show culture in Southeast Texas. A photograph of singing cowboy Rex Allen is also present....

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This group of materials includes catalogs and a news bulletin from dog shows held in Mexico, Australia, England, the Philippines, and Nassau, Bahamas. As noted in some of the catalogs, American DPCA members that were also dog show judges would occasionally travel to judge international Doberman Pinscher dog shows.

Scope and Contents Marjorie, a/k/a Maggie, Hilliard (1905-1993) of Michigan was a one-litter breeder (Hilmar), owner, exhibitor, judge, and rescuer of Doberman Pinschers since her family first brought Dobermans back from Europe in the late 1920s. Maggie was active in the DPCA, the DPC of Michigan, and Doberman rescue. Maggie's father was good friends with Glenn S. Staines of Pontchartrain Kennels in Detroit, Michigan, and they worked together showing and caring for Dobermans. Footage from the...

Scope and Contents Eleanor Houston (nee Hill) Carpenter was an early importer of Doberman Pinschers from Germany in the mid to late 1930s, including notable Dobermans Ch. Cherloc v. Raufelsen and Ch. Assy von Illerblick, and produced many champions as a breeder. Carpenter also wrote educational articles on Dobermans and was active in the DPCA and as a judge. Her Pennsylvania property on which the kennel originated was seized by eminent domain in the 1950s. The collection contains numerous images...

Scope and Contents Book 1 and 2 consist of documents and periodicals removed from two three-ring binders, including articles, correspondence, Illini Dobe Doings, an interview and article in Dobe World, and four photographs. The collection also includes pedigrees, registrations, awards, and photographs, especially of Dobermans from Von Der Heide Kennels, Reg., under which John and his wife Sally E. Brueggeman bred Doberman Pinschers. Finally, there is a framed print of an illustrated standard drawing by John...

Scope and contents The War and Pilot Dogs collection, one of the first collections donated to the DPCA Archives by Eleanor and Rhys Carpenter (with later additions) is comprised of books, periodicals, clippings, photographs, videos, and correspondence regarding the War Dogs program intiated by the United States Marine Corps during World War II, and clippings and photographs regarding Pilot Dogs, trained to guide their blind or vision-challenged owners.War Dogs, also known as "Devil Dogs," were...

Scope and Contents This small collection of documents, photographs, and objects regarding Ch. Luz v. Rodeltal appears to have been compiled by Nancy K. Heitzman, DPCA Archives Committee Chairperson, beginning circa 1980s. Luz was born in Germany in 1926, a grandson of Lux v.d. Blankenburg, one of Germany's all-time leading sires. He became an American champion in 1934 and sired three champions, including Sieger Muck von Brunia. Muck's descendants include Ch. Blank v.d. Domstadt and Ch. Dictator v....