Pigs Can’t Spin, pre1910
‘Spinners of the Distaff’ (Les Fileuses de Quenouilles), postcard showing women spinning hemp with pigs. Tarn, France pre1910
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Marihuana May Not Be Grown In This City, 1917
Marihuana May Not Be Grown In This City ‘No more may the festive “marihuana” be grown in the city of Phoenix. Not that it is known to have ever been propagated here to any considerable extent. Nor may it Read More …
Desert Smoke, 1965
‘Afghan man sitting outside his house enjoying a smoke from his waterpipe’, the desert near Herat in west Afghanistan 1965
Shocks in a Field, undated
‘Cut hemp stalks gathered in shocks in a field’ Brandon, Wisconsin undated
Turkish Women Relax, 1870
‘Turkish Women’ relax while smoking a waterpipe in studio by Pascal Sebah & Polycarpe Joaillier. Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey 1870’s
Rolling with the Circus
‘m. dario artiste sans bras, cirque veuve ricono’ postcard 1890’s Rolling with the Circus No other act in history has embodied the spirit of the old circus saying ‘The show must go on’ more then one small man with no Read More …
Pigs are Spinning, 1673
‘Varkens die spinnen’ (Pigs are Spinning), woodblock protest print with the message “The Great Mortality among the Westphalian Wives / how that the Pigs should spin / to win a living for the men”. The print is a animal allegory Read More …
A Hindu Nautch, pre1910
‘A Hindu Nautch’ Postcard. Two Nautch women smoking hookah. Calcutta, India pre1910 A hand painted version this time labeled ‘A Hindu Lady’
Predawn Raids, 1936
‘Charged with the sale of marijuana Wednesday after pre-dawn raids was Virgil ‘Smiley’ Smith, 48, of 411 N Eastern.’ Oklahoma City, Oklahoma March 6, 1936
Italian POW Cannabis Garden, 1915
Cannabis garden curated by Italian prisoners of war under the control of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at Ljubljana Castle, Austria (present day Slovenia) during WW1 between 1915-1919