Countryside Scenes of Breaking Hemp, 1900
‘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
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After the Bath, 19th Century
‘After the Bath’ by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) 19th century
Kago Bearers Light Up, 1860
Kago Bearers light up kiseru pipes on a break from carrying a woman traveling in a Kago or hanging chair. Hand Colored Albumen Photograph, Japan 1860
Grapes of Wrath
Capt. Rufus D. Pettit’s Battery B, 1st New York Light Artillery, taken during McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign in Fort Richardson, Fair Oaks, Virginia 1862 Grapes of Wrath At the height of battle when all seemed lost facing an overwhelming advancing force, Read More …
It Takes a Village, 1940’s
Hemp Harvest, Italy 1940’s Notice that men, women and children were all involved in the hemp harvest… Family!
The Cut Flower Trade, 1885
‘The Cut Flower Trade’ illustration from The American florist: a weekly journal for the trade, in 1885
Greek Party Girls, 1910
Three nude women smoke a waterpipe while dancing and playing music, Greek postcard, around 1910
I Am Coming From the Hemp Farm, 1977
Men carrying bundles of hemp to the Złoczów Market in Zolochiv, Ukraine. September 26, 1934 I Am Coming From the Hemp Farm (translated from Farsi) I am coming from the hemp farm Water on one side, Fire on the other Read More …
Shakespearean Santa, 1873
‘Falstaff with a Tankard of Wine and a Pipe’ by Mihaly Zichy in 1873
Spirit Way, 1871
‘Man smokes a pipe next to the stone animals along the road to the Ming Tombs’, Spirit Way near Beijing, China 1871-72 Spirit Way, China 1860 Spirit Way, China present day