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Morton Brailsford Paine photographs his two-year-old niece, Harriet, as she looks through the camera lens at his American Staffordshire Terrier, c. 1903.

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A devoted dog lover poses with his Boston Terrier on the Fort Sumter pier, undated.

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A boy and his puppy at Magnolia Garden Plantation photographed by Chansonetta Stanley Emmons, 1926.

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Miss Charlotta Drayton and her dog “Nipper” photographed by Morton Brailsford Paine,  July 5, 1917.

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The Paine family sits and reads after dinner as their pet parrot looks on, undated.

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The cat was the only subject that could sit still for the photographer in this attempt at a family portrait, c. 1898.

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Bath time, photographed by Morton Brailsford Paine, c. 1920.

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Lizzie Sams captures her husband petting a goat in their backyard on New Street, April 9, 1905.

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The Sloan sisters take tea in their garden with their poodle at 64 South Battery, undated, unknown photographer.

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Agatha Aimar poses with her cat, “Mut”, January 1913.

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Caroline Sanders Clements is the senior editor at Garden & Gun and oversees the magazine’s annual Made in the South Awards. Since joining G&G’s editorial team in 2017, the Athens, Georgia, native has written and edited stories about artists, architects, historians, musicians, tomato farmers, James Beard Award winners, and one mixed martial artist. She lives in North Charleston, South Carolina, with her husband, Sam, and dog, Bucket.