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Playing the Puffs: a Musical version of SmokeMademoiselle Lipovska, in an illustrated photograph, puffing a cigarette by music, with musical notes in smoke clouds. Captioned, Playing the Puffs: a Musical version of Smoke'
In The Sea at Margate, photograph of man with parasolIn The Sea at Margate, reportage photograph of man holding a parasol, smoking a cigarette, and reading a newspaper whilst in the sea
Three German soldiers, May 1917, WW1 Date: 1917
Mr Brick the Builder
Waving not Drowning, Henry cartoon by Carl Anderson Date: 1936
Treacle on Tap, Henry cartoon by Carl Anderson Date: 1936
Towed by a swan, Henry cartoon by Carl Anderson Date: 1936
Stool Leap Frog, Henry cartoon by Carl Anderson Date: 1936
Piano Slide, Henry cartoon by Carl Anderson Date: 1936
On Ice, Henry cartoon by Carl Anderson Date: 1936
Masking the Medicine, Henry cartoon by Carl Anderson Date: 1936
Making a Monkey of Him, Henry cartoon by Carl Anderson Date: 1936
Stealing wool to Fly a Kite, Henry cartoon by Carl Anderson Date: 1936
Sailing with a top hat, Henry cartoon by Carl AndersonSailing wih a hot hat, Henry cartoon by Carl Anderson Date: 1936
Roller skating with goat propulsion, Henry cartoon by Carl Anderson Date: 1936
Swatting a fly, Henry cartoon by Carl Anderson Date: 1936
Henry cartoon, Cone Envy, by Carl Anderson Date: 1936
Henry cartoon, Catapulting Flies, by Carl Anderson Date: 1936
Henry cartoon, boy takes a ride, by Carl Anderson Date: 1936
Henry cartoon, A Hot Tip, by Carl AndersonA Hot Tip, Henry cartoon drawn by Carl Anderson Date: 1936
Melachrino AdvertisementAdvertisement for Melachrino, importers of Egyptian cigarettes throughout Australasia. Image shows a man, smoking whilst seated on a comfy armchair, with the phrase
Abdulla Cigarettes AdvertisementAdvertisement for Abdulla cigarettes, Turkish, Egyptian, Virginian, made in England. The advert shows a smoking cigarette sat in an Abdulla advertising ashtray, beside a case and box. Date: circa 1922
Portrait of Albert BuhrerA portrait of Albert Buhrer, who is in a relaxed pose with cigarette in hand. Date: circa 1929
Advert for Player's cigarettesA young, fashionable couple smoking on the beach, in this advert for Player's cigarettes. Date: 1939
Player's advert using Ernest Prater paintingThis advert for Player's cigarettes uses a painting by Ernest Prater (1864-1950) of a Regency game of cricket. Date: c1939
Florence Desmond, impersonator, as Marlene Dietrich, in top hat, with cigarette. With description, Florence Desmond is one of the cleverest impersonators there are about at present
Anthony Hope Hawkins (1863-1933), novelist and playwright, formal studio portrait smoking cigarette. Captioned, The After-Dinner Speaker Par Excellence
Norman McKinnel, actor, (1870-1932) drawn from life by R G Mathews, artist (1870-1955). Pencil sketch in suit and waistcoat, smoking a cigarette
Advert for De Reszke Minors, a range of cigarettes smaller than their standard Americans range. Date: 1932
The Motor Picture Book, Traffic Control from the Air Date: 1930
Music cover, Lady of Spain quickstepMusic cover, Lady of Spain, Spanish 3/4 quickstep, words by Erell Reaves, music by Tolchard Evans Date: 1944
Egyptian Cigarette Factory, Ms Lehem & Co, Aden Date: 1920s
Advert, De Reszke Minors cigarettes, with celebrity endorsement from the likes of Gracie Fields and George Formby. Date: 1938
Mark Twain, celebrity endorsement advertising tobacco, Player's Navy Cut cigarettes Date: 1909
Life on a North Sea trawler - man viewed through porthole. Date: 1960s
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor cigarette card. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) British composer of mixed race ancestry. His father came from Sierra Leone & his mother was English
Hal Hurst working on a painting, The Hero, WW1The English artist Hal Hurst working on a painting, The Hero, First World War, photograph in the New York Times, 22 April 1915. 1915
Lady Trumpington and Nigel Wright discuss Sunday tradingThe Conservative peer Lady Trumpington (Jean Alys Barker, Baroness Trumpington, b.1922) and Nigel Wright, the Dickie Dirts clothing retailer, discuss the issue of Sunday trading, 4 February 1982
Men working on Festival of Britain building site, LondonGroup of men working on the Festival of Britain building site, London. Seen here taking a break to read their favourite newspapers: the Daily Herald, the Daily Worker and the Daily Mirror
Cigarette Box with relief after a Caton Woodville paintingCigarette Box. On lid - a relief after Caton Woodville's painting of a battle scene, signed by the artist together with Rudyard Kipling's poem - Who stands if freedom fail Who dies if England
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Un vago es un faccioso (A lazy is a factious). Poster edited by the Departament of Public Order of Aragon
Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, writersKeith Spencer Waterhouse (1929-2009), English novelist, journalist and writer of TV series. Seen here (left) with his friend and co-writer Willis Hall (1929-2005). Date: 1960
Mikhail Sholokhov, Soviet Russian novelistMikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905-1984), Soviet Russian novelist, winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize for Literature. Best known for his novel, Quiet Flows the Don. Date: circa 1960s
Kenneth Tynan, English theatre critic and writerKenneth Peacock Tynan (1927-1980), influential and often controversial English theatre critic and writer. Date: circa 1960s
Bill Owen, English actor and songwriterBill Owen (William John Owen Rowbotham, 1914-1999), English actor and songwriter. Best known for the role of Compo in the TV series, Last of the Summer Wine
Ho Chi Minh, communist leader of North VietnamHo Chi Minh (1890-1969), Vietnamese Communist revolutionary and Dictator, Prime Minister (1946-1955) and President (1945-1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)
Advertisement for Kenilworth cigarettes showing a two lovers sharing a light from a cigarette. Date: 1919
A Madame Yevonde portrait of Miss Meum StewartMiss Meum Stewart is amusingly posed as the stained-glass window angel, complete with halo- and smoking a cigarette with rather unangelic gusto