Turkish Delight, 19th Century
A Turkish threesome enjoying a smoke, cdv (carte de visite) Studio portrait. Constantinople,Turkey 1860-80
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Wanted Us To Try Hashish, 1940
“Smoking a hookah or bubble pipe at El Kantara on Suez Canal. The Arabs wanted us to try hashish but we declined.” Australian soldiers during WW2, Egypt 1940
Ox Cart Smoke Thru, 1908
‘A poor cripple’s ox-cart’, stereograph by Stereo Travel Co. In Calcutta, India 1908
Gourd Waterpipe, 1880
‘Men outside a hut’ smoking a water pipe made from a gourd, taken by Antoin Sevruguin, Qajar, Iran 1880-1900 Tis the season, have you picked out that perfect gourd yet? The look when you don’t Read More …
Displaying the War on Drugs
DEA Museum at The Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters in Arlington, Virginia Displaying The War On Drugs In 1999 the DEA decided to put some of those tax dollars to work opening a museum all about, of course, themselves. The Read More …
Boy Smoking Water Pipe, 1930
Boy smoking water pipe postcard, Tripoli, Libya 1930
Shoo Fly Don’t Bother Me
Daruma, the founder of Zen Buddhism, his arms are raised above his head and he is holding a fly whisk used during meditation. He is either yelling or laughing. Copper Kozuka by Toshiyuki 1800’s Shoo Fly Don’t Bother Read More …
Tikapur Artwork Smoke Sesh, 1950
Picasso like Figures, Bordered by Sacred Serpents, Adorn a Tharu Mud Wall in Tikapur These shy people, who ran at first sight of the photographer, invited him into their home after he let them look through his camera’s view finder. Read More …
Yale Smoking Contest, 1959
‘Smoking Contest’ held at Yale University in 1959 Honorable mention to the guy in the middle who showed up with the homemade glass jug hookah!
Playing Knucklebones, 1898
‘Playing Knucklebones’, painting by Paul Alexander Alfred Leroy 1898