These are great!
I have an old book that shows black Samoyeds too.
The Pap who seems to have an overly short back, looks to have something very wrong with his rear legs. If you look at his hocks, they are almost bent in towards his body and his rear is really under his body. It looks similar, from this picture to a Pom that comes into the grooming shop I work at who has deformed rear legs. Whatever is going on with the rear is causing the dog to look all scrunched up.
Of course, I love the leggier corgis and wish the ultra-dwarf style never became fashionable (let alone the ultra-dwarf and FAT style). I look at old Corgis and think that they look like such very able bodied dogs, probably quite athletic.
Las Rocosa Aussies also has a neat page that shows the breeds in the Aussies history. there's a picture of a copper pointed PyrShep on the page, which looks quite Aussie-like. Also shows hairy Koolies and German Tigers:
http://www.lasrocosa.com/aussiehistory1.html
My favorite Retrieverman blog talks about why breeds change and recreating breeds...
"Dogs also exist within the cultural and economic conditions of their time period, which is why I don’t think we can recreate the St. John’s water dog and the Irish wolfhound probably isn’t the animal you want to use when you go to Alaska on a wolf hunt. The selective pressures that produced these animals disappear or are distorted once the exact conditions no longer exist.
I don’t think my romance and nostalgia would ever lead me to do what Julius Wipfel and his colleagues did. After all, that project cost a lot of money and took decades to perfect. (recreate a breed)
But I can’t say I’m not influenced by these same forces.
Dog people wouldn’t be much without some romance and nostalgia."
It’s just got to be kept in perspective."
http://retrieverman.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/the-recreated-ancient-eurasian-spitz/