The Spinner, 700-550BC
‘The Spinner’ Relief/Carving. Young woman spinning and servant holding a fan. Found in Susa, present day Shush, Iran between 700-550 BC
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‘The Spinner’ Relief/Carving. Young woman spinning and servant holding a fan. Found in Susa, present day Shush, Iran between 700-550 BC
‘Coffee seller’ photographed by Abdullah Frères in Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey 1870
A teacher educates a group of 9th grade students of the 636th male high school about plants on the school’s experimental farm site. A sign identifies the large Cannabis plant in the garden. Russia September 1950 конопля is Russian for Read More …
A Turkish threesome enjoying a smoke, cdv (carte de visite) Studio portrait. Constantinople,Turkey 1860-80
La Corroirie estate near Loches, France (this Hemp oven also served as a prison for misbehaving monks when not in use) Getting Baked With Hemp Across France ruins of hemp history decay. These abandoned structures loom high over farm lands Read More …
“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
‘Haschisch’ by Alfred Zimmermann, printed in Jugend magazine. Germany 1901
‘La recolte du chanvre dans la Sarthe’, The harvest of hemp in Sarthe, postcard from Ballon in Sarthe, France 1907
“Louie smokes marijuana?” – Richard Nixon’s response when he was told he had smuggled cannabis through customs for Louis Armstrong by his aid Charles McWhorter Louis Armstrong talks with Richard Nixon Satchmo’s Mule Louis Armstrong was considered a master Read More …
‘As the Old Sing, so Pipe the Young’ by Jan Steen in 1664 The painting is used as a proverb by the artist portraying the message that ‘children copy adults’. Artist Jan Steen decided to use his actual family in Read More …