The first dog show of the Finnish Kennel Club was held in Helsinki on the 23rd-25th. May 1891. All dogs that participated in the show are listed in the catalog.

At the exhibition organized at the end of the 19th century, the breeds judged were, among others, the Finnish barking bird dog, various hounds, setters, German bird dog, foxhound and Skye terrier. There are many interesting names on the list, like for example, the Kennel Club’s founding member and chairman Daniel Johannes Wadén’s Finnish Spitz bitch Kairi. At that time, the breed was still called the Finnish barking bird dog.

Check out the digitized version of the catalog.

The second dog show of the Finnish Kennel Club was held in 1892 in Helsinki.

In 1892, the number of dogs participating in the three-day show was already over 250, and the number of participants had increased by about a hundred dogs in a year. Among the participants was confectioner Karl Fazer, whose dog Dalin competed in the Pointer class. The show’s clearly most popular class was the mixed-breed hound class, in which about a third of the dogs in the show participated.

Check out the digitized version of the catalog.

Duke Andrei Shirinsky-Shihmatov’s book ‘Review of the Laika breed dogs of the northern parts of the empire’ from 1895. The book is written in Russian.

A book by Chas H. Mason from year 1888. Check out the digitized version, which describes the best dogs from 1888.