This is a photo of English Angora posted at the convention hall just outside the showroom. Though there is no year given, we could tell it's a very old photo. The English Angora in the photo does not look anything like what we see today. Literature have shown that Angora rabbits have been in the horizon since the 1700s.
English Lop is one of the very old breeds, listed as a breed in 1910, the year when the ARBA was established, though with a different name. MN convention is considered as the 100th year birthday of the American Rabbit Breeders Association. 
Three more breed banners.
It seems that the older breeds tend to be bigger animals while the smaller breeds were created in recent years.
Holland Lop and Mini Lop are very popular small breeds today that were created in 1980. The change of living arrangement and life style of the modern day living make it hard to keep large breeds.
American Fuzzy Lop is an even later addition in 1988; originally developed from Holland Lop.
That English Angora on the old picture was probably an early import from England? They breed them with less facial furnishings in Britain and they are smaller animals...texture is different too.
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