This bitch named Polly is featured in George O. Shields’s The American Book of the Dog (1891).
I don’t know if we would call this particular dog a “Red Winchester,” which was the early long-haired strain of Chesapeake Bay retriever,” but this dog has more coat than one typically finds on a Chesapeake Bay retriever of today.
This dog is only slightly feathered, but she may have been groomed to look a “bit slicker” than she would normally.
