Category: Postcard

The Hemp Brakers, 1906

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‘The Hemp Brakers’ (les Broyeuses de Chanvre) postcard.  Argent-sur-Sauldre, France taken sometime before 1906             In a reproduction of the original postcard and photograph produced in 1910, the image is the same except for the Read More …

Effects of Sulfate of Ammonia on Hemp, 1890’s

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‘Effects of sulfate of ammonia on hemp’ postcard,   Haut Éclair, France 1890’s     Hemp plants without ammonia sulfate on the left, yield 12 hundredweight per hectare, with ammonia sulfate on the right, yield 15 hundredweight per hectare.   Read More …

Grape Seller, 1920

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‘Grape seller with Kif smokers’ postcard, Tétouan, Morocco 1920    

With Child, 1900

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‘Young Woman Breaking Hemp’ with child (‘Jeune Femme broyant du Chanvre’),  Pontivy, France.  Postcard from around 1900  

Countryside Scenes of Breaking Hemp, 1900

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‘Countryside scene of women breaking hemp on a dual hemp brake while a young girl spins hemp’ (la Corrèze illustrée types et scènes champêtres broyage du chanvre), postcard from Corrèze, France early 1900          

Greek Party Girls, 1910

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Three nude women smoke a waterpipe while dancing and playing music, Greek postcard, around 1910        

Victorian Woman Rolling, 19th Century

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Victorian woman rolling a smoke, Hand colored postcard 19th Century  

Hemp Harvest in Ballon, 1907

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‘La recolte du chanvre dans la Sarthe’, The harvest of hemp in Sarthe, postcard from Ballon in Sarthe, France 1907    

Scene of the Desert Life, 1901

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‘Scene of the Desert Life: Bedouin smoking a chibouk pipe resting beside his camel’, Postcard.  Egypt 1901