1870s Pit Bull Dog and Gentleman | The Archives

A pit bull dog laying at the feet of a gentleman smoking a pipe from the 1870s.

In the first entry of this special blog series – The Archives, I chose to start it off with a white pit bull dog on a Cabinet Card photograph from the 1890s. That timeframe would have been when the American Pit Bull Terrier breed name was born. This entry – Archive #2, of a pit bull dog laying at the feet of a gentleman smoking a pipe dates even further back to the 1870s!