08/04/2023
Deep in the Gazette photo archive is a battered old Kodak film box. It contains several rare —and extremely fragile—glass negatives taken by Rudolph Tauskey. They date to the early 1920s.
Using a sophisticated scanner, our creative production team has struck crisp digital images from the delicate glass plates. This ensures that these Tauskey treasures, most of which haven't been seen by Gazette readers for 80 or 90 years, will be part of our sport's historical record far into the future.
The image we share here is from a glass negative Tauskey made of Collie Int. Ch. Bellhaven Laund Logic, out of Florence B. Ilch's famous Bellhaven kennel at Red Bank, New Jersey. We date it circa 1922, the year Mrs. Ilch imported Laund Logic from England, where he was whelped in 1917. He would become an influential sire in the breed.
