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Early Reminiscences of the Hemp Giantesses “In driving through a part of Bohemia from Vienna to Dresden we had occasionally long stages, and in the twilight often saw, what at the time amazed and not a little startled me, Read More …
Hemp stacked and retting on the banks of the Loire River, postcard from Ingrandes, France 1910
‘Worker hauls a wagon loaded with hemp using a experimental four-wheel drive International 8-16 tractor.’ Wisconsin 1917
Men use a horse-drawn reaper or hemp harvester to harvest hemp in a field. The hemp was used to produce binder twine. Wisconsin 1912
Taima Shukaku (Hemp Harvest) by Tomoyuki Shimizu in Japan 1929
Villagers wait in line with their hemp crop to be milled. “‘Stigliatura’ After maceration and drying the hemp bundles are started at the milling machine, which crushed the stems to facilitate their separation.” Carmagnola, Italy 1930’s
‘Hemp Breaker’ by Paul Sawyier, Watercolor 1900-1920
I think I’m learning Chinese, I think I’m learning Chinese, I really think so… Today we are not only going to learn a Chinese symbol but actually understand it! Better yet its the symbol for Hemp… Although the symbol has Read More …
“when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.” – William Shakespeare writes In The Tempest (Shakespeare would most likely have saw Epenow when he was kidnapped Read More …
“Two men wearing overalls cut and bundle hemp, while a man in a suit looks on” Mercer County, Kentucky 1900-1904