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“The World should never forget the spot where once stood Liberty Tree” – Marquis de Lafayette ‘Liberty Tree’ by David Sears, 1775 Revolutionary Hemp: Part 1 – In Defense of our Liberty Tree In order to birth Read More …
‘Retting Group’ – Preparation and sinking of hemp fiber by means of stones of rafts formed by bundles of hemp for maceration/retting; the work group was portrayed during a pause.’ near Bologna, Italy undated Notice the bare foot of the Read More …
‘Keep Within Compass’ by Robert Dighton, Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London 1785 The Fear of God To instill the deep fear of god within it’s youthful followers, St. Read More …
‘Seven Pot’ hemp experiment at the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station. Undated but conducted between 1898-1918
‘The three friends on the spinning wheel, we talk, we talk… and the tempo passes’ (Les trois amies au rouet on file, on cause, … et le tempa passe), postcard. Normandy, France taken sometime around 1900
‘Marijuana seedlings, part of a planting being investigated by Wellington drug squad detectives.’ Porirua, New Zealand November 4, 1970
‘Older man in a felt hat operating a hemp brake. He is standing in front of a log cabin, with a tall split-rail fence in the background.’ Mercer County, Kentucky 1900-1904
‘Smoke billows from a pipe-smoking dream character as he walks on a ferocious crocodile which is a symbol of the earth’, one of 23 Untitled drawings from ‘Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel’ (The comical Dreams of Pantagruel) by Salvador Dali Read More …
‘Selection of hemp for seed’ (Selezione canaponi per semi). Bentivoglio, Italy pre WW2 (1930/40’s)
‘Tobacco and Pipe Shop’ (Marchand de Tumbeki à des Narghilehs), photographed by Pascal Sebah. Cairo, Egypt 1860-1880