Gallery of Historic Cairn Terrier Pictures and Dog Magazine Articles
I collect old dog magazines. I find the information in them to be of real value. Articles written back when cairns were first being recognized and shown can tell us a lot about what our cairns should be like today. While this article mentions Scotties, the information about true hard coats absolutely applies to ALL rough coated terriers. 1940
1935
The 1933 AKC Standard for the Cairn terrier. Please note the last paragraph which describes the TINY amount of grooming which the breed should require.
1939
1939
1940
1939
1939Here we see that the "original" cairn had a longer back, longer tail and were slightly larger than cairns today.
1939
1935