The team behind The Dachshund History Project wanted to take a few minutes to again thank Meg and Keith Williamson (Gemdach) for all the time, work and expense it took for them to donate years and years (many complete) of American Dachshund and Dachshund Variety magazines to the effort here at TDHP. While we have cobbled together our own collections, we didn’t come close to having such a complete compilation on our own. The American Dachshunds sent by the Williamson’s go all the way back to 1949! These magazine photos will help ensure that we have photos of old Dachshunds important to our breed, and perhaps even some photos that were otherwise lost to us. We firmly believe that by understanding our past, we are more able to improve our future.
If you have old photos or magazines you would like to donate or allow us to borrow (scan), please let us know what you have. Alternatively, you can scan things and email them to us, or if you don’t have the ability to scan, perhaps we can find someone in your area to assist.
We do appreciate monetary contributions, which allow us to forward-pay maintenance for the website in terms of hosting, the yearly domain fee, and donations for the themes and plugins we use, along with the occasional professional help for issues that are beyond our skill sets (it’s amazing how much goes into that effort). We also use monetary donations to selectively acquire items we think are unique and important to the history of the show Dachshund in the United States. Lastly, donations cover shipping costs for folks who want to donate things we are missing from the TDHP archives, but who cannot afford to ship from their own pocket. We are determined to preserve and display as much as possible for the Dachshund Fancy!
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