(Afghan Hound Database and Breed Information Exchange)
Of Miss Caroline Hall Richmond of Los Angeles, California) (By Steve Tillotson December 2011 ,2013. Updated December 2016
SCENE SETTING - USA AFGHAN HOUNDS LATE 1920'S - EARLY 1930 ERA Conventional wisdom is that that the Afghan Hound in America was effectively established by Q A Shaw Mckean (Prides Hill, Massachusetts) who imported Badshah Of Ainsdart in 1934. Earlier - in early/mid 1932 Q A Shaw Mckean acquired Westmill Omar and Asra Of Ghazni (both UK imports) previously owned by Zeppo Marx who handed them on to dog dealer and judge George Thomas.. The two hounds mated whilst in the possession of George Thomas and he sold them on to . Q A Shaw Mckean. Thus the first US breeding that contributes to US pedigree history occured at Q A Shaw Mckean'sPrides Hill kennel (albeit with the breeder registered as George Thomas). So conventional wisdom is correct and Q A Shaw Mckean as the most enthusiastic and influential breeder of his era is rightly credited with getting the breed established in the USA. There were several other Afghan hounds imported from the UK earlier than the1930's by Edward Abrams, Philadelphia, Dunwalk Kennels in, New Jersey, O'valley Farm and a few others, but these earlier imports do not contribute to the US pedigree history. It is easy to focus on Prides Hill because it was such a significant kennel and its bloodlines were destributed across the USA. We should also include the White sisters in New Mexico (Kandahar Afghan Hounds) who imported the litter brother to Mckean's Badshah of Ainsdart - Tufan Of Ainsdart. We need to take note of other important non-UK imports and influences - specifically those direct importations from Afghanistan and India because they introduced new bloodlines, not existent in the aforementioned UK import bloodlines. In particular we are thinking of Laurence Peters who imported two afghan hounds from Afghanistan in the early 1930's, and, in the context of this article, we are particularly thinking about Caroline Hall RIchmond (Fatima Afghan Hounds) and her direct imports from India in 1929 which, pre-dates Q A Shaw Mckean's importation/ownership by a few years (although Mckean bred his Afghans before Caroline Hall Richmond started breeding). THE FATIMA AFGHAN HOUNDS HISTORY We have found photographs of Fatima and Souriya and some narrative about their origins and breeder etc.
FATIMA (1907) vs FATIMA( 192)8 Breed researcher Lillian Goodman published an article about an Afghan hound named Fatima in Our Afghans in August 2003. The early article contained an error we need to be aware of. The 2003 article is headed by a photograph of Fatima provided by Margo Waskow (Little Fir Kennel). The error was that the photograph that Margo Waskow provided to Our Afghans relates to an entirely different Afghan than the one we are concerned with in this article. You can read all about the other Fatima here. The earlier Fatima was owned by Captain F Martin of the 25th Punjabi, at Rawalpindi (India) and was born in 1907.
JEMSHUPUR FATIMA and JEMSHUPUR SOURIYA - COUNTRY OF ORIGIN (A bit of detail to start us off - The reference to Jemshupur actually relates to the city of Jamshedpur in eastern India. The word Jemshupur could be a simple misspelling, or, it could be that the breeder (Albert Hirsth) made up the word and based it on the city of Jamshedpur (where he was employed by Tata Steel) in order to create Jemshupur as his kennel name?) The Fatima we are discussing in this article was born in 1928 and imported from India to the USA. The AKC stud book states Fatima was imported from India. There was some confusion about Fatima's country of origin. In the two newspaper articles below, the first says India, the second references Afghanistan. Later in this article Phyllis Robson's comments are recorded and Miss Robson states Afghanistan. We are going to stay with the AKC info and assume the correct country of origin is India, until and unless we discover evidence to the contrary. (Update Dec 2016 we have found a press article that informs that Fatima and litter sister Souriya were bred by Albert Hirsch when he was livning in Jemshupur, India and working for the Indian Tata Steel Company. So this confirms these two hounds were born in India). The kennel name Jemshepur previously attached to both hounds by breeder Alber Hirtsch was dropped and they became known as Fatima and Souriya of Miss Hall Richmond's "Fatima" kennels, located in Los Angeles, California, USA Fatima was registered in the AKC stud book, we do not find a registration for Souriya We recently found this newspaper archive that tells us some more about Fatima
UPDATE December 12th 2016 BREEDER, IMPORTER - MR ALBERT HIRSTH, GARY, INDIANA We recently found the newspaper archive below, originally published in The Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Indiana, USA) 8 Jun 1929 and provides new information about Mr Albert Hirsth, the breeder and importer of Fatima and Souriya -
THE FATIMA AFGHAN HOUNDS (PRESS ITEM 1937) (The Los Angeles Times 10th January 1937) Fanciers of the Afghan hound are of the firm belief that this racy animal is the beginning of al dogs and dates back to the Pharaohs of Persia and Afghanistan Fatima, a beautiful eight year old blond Afghan belonging to Mrs C H Richmond and Mrs Elsie Richmond Cochran of New York and Westwood Vikllage, is the mother of eight fine hounds that have been winning honors in recent shows. The four youngsters still in the posession of Mrs Richmond and her daughter are Fatima's Daughter Fatima a honey blonde, Fatima's Daughter Peri chinchilla colored , Fatima's Daughter Kushdil a titian dark brindle and Fatima's Son Tufan Khan a brindle black. Fatima the elder, was born in Afghanistan and was raised in Jemshedpur, India. She is registered in the Kennel Club Of India, an organization that is affiliated with the Kennel CLub of London. She was imported from England by Mrs C H Richmond and was brought to American in the company of an East Indian attendent. The father of the stately hound's puppies is Champion Tufan of Ainsdart, imported from England by Miss Amelia White of Santa Fe Springs, N.M. Fatima's son Sidar Khan, a member of this family, now owned by Robert Sherwood, won best of winners at Palm Springs last fall. At the Ambassador show last yar, Tufon went best of winners, winning 5 points, or one-third of his championship, at his first show. Peri won first in puppy class and went reserve winers, and Kushdil went firt in limit class THE FATIMA PAINTING
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