In honor of National Dog Week, the Ozark Kennel Club held its annual puppy match, an informal, educational dog show, at Phelps Grove Park.
At the event, children and teens ages 15 and younger could show purebred dogs under a year old. Adults helped handle the dogs with younger participants. Plaques made from Ozark cedar were given for the first in a group.
Charles Beach (pictured in this photo that ran Sept. 21, 1958, in the Leader & Press) showed his Chow, Honey Bear, at the event. They, sadly, did not place.
This image is part of a much larger collection of historically rich photographs from the News-Leader’s photo archive. Each week, the Springfield-Greene County Library will tap into this vast collection and present an interesting image “from
the darkroom" and share its history. This image is presented in partnership between the Springfield-Greene County Library District and the Springfield News-Leader. For more historical images of the Ozarks, visit: thelibrary.org/fromthedarkroom.
This article originally appeared on Springfield News-Leader: From the Darkroom shows photogenic pair posing for 1958 puppy match
