Drug Collection

Cid Officers as Dockers
C.I.D officers cunningly disguised as dockers during investigations into drug smugglers at Limehouse Docks, London. One man (r) has a hook for a hand!

Montreal Pharmacy, Canada. Allegedly (according to this card) the largest (and most luxiously appointed) of its kind in the world!

Nelson Drug Company Store, Dowagiac, Michigan, USA
Good Drug Men - Nelson Drug Company Store, Dowagiac, Michigan, USA. This store appears to sell absolutely everything, including postcards and postage stamps! Date: circa 1920s

Walgreen Drug Store - Baronne and Canal Streets, New Orleans
Walgreen Drug Store - 900 Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Date: 1950s

Notting Hill Gate and Coronet Theatre, West London
Notting Hill Gate (looking west) and Coronet Theatre, West London. Date: circa 1905

Drug Stores, Gronant, Denbighshire
Drug Stores, Gronant, Prestatyn, near Rhyl, Denbighshire, Wales. Date: 1950s

Indian hemp, marijuana, hashish or ganja, Cannabis sativa. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants

Electric Avenue, Brixton, London - note the delightful arcade-style covering of the sheltered walkways, providing shelter to the shopfronts

Incredible hallucinations brought on by smoking Opium
Seeing Everything - The wild and incredible hallucinations brought on by smoking Opium. Date: 1905

Sanotogen advert
A woman appearing ??Run-down?. The advert offering Sanatogen to build your health back up. It was invented by the Bauer Chemical Co. in Germany in 1898. It is still sold today as vitamins. Date: 1925

Schweizer RG-8B Twin Condor 8103
United States Coast Guard - Schweizer RG-8B Twin Condor 8103, used for covert surveillance of drug smuggling operations. Date: circa 1999

Manufacture of Opium in India
Raising revenue of opium saw large profits in the drug to China. Photograph showing an intermediate stage in the process of preparation

Comic postcard, Customer in department store - walk this way Date: 20th century

Gates Learjet 23 N232R (msn 23-005), of Rexall Drug Company, at Toronto Airport. Date: 1971

Advert for Beechams Pills, 1925 Date: 1925

Apothecaries Company
The Lambeth Drug Mill stood in Grays Walk, roughly where the Ethelred Street estate now lies, to the north of Black Prince Road

Gromwell varieties, Lithospermum species. Lithospermum flore caeruleo, Lithospermum seu Milium solis grenil, Lithospermum arvense radice alba, Lithospermum linariae folio sue Lingua passerina

Advert, Jollys Duchess Pills
Advert for Jollys Duchess Pills for Pale Faces, from British Druggists Ltd, Oxford Street, London. 1897

Pharmacy pitcher and vase from Naples, Italy. The pharmacy pitcher decorated with SP 1689 within a heraldic shield, and motto above A. CDIGARD. STELLAT

Cannabis, Cannabis sativa, and flax, Linum usitatissimum. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and horned poppy, Glaucium corniculatum. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Coca tree, Erythroxylum coca (Erythroxylon coca). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler

Cannabis, Cannabis sativa
Cannabis or marijuana, Cannabis sativa. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Red cinchona or red quina, Cinchona pubescens (Cinchona succirubra). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants

Quina, Cinchona calisaya. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Quinine tree and Ladenbergia oblongifolia
Quinine, Cinchona officinalis 1 and Ladenbergia oblongifolia, vulnerable, 2. Quinquina gris, Quinquina rouge. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse after an illustration by Adolph Fries

Ayahuasca or yaje, Prestonia quinquangularis (Haemadictyon nutans var. maxima an sp. nova). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens

Hemp, Cannabis sativa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816

White opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Bergenia ciliata (Coarse-fringed Indian saxifrage, Saxifraga thysanodes). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Edwards Botanical

Apothecary in his shop using a mortar and pestle to prepare a medicine. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Tabart, London, 1810

Flax and cannabis
Flax, Linum usitatissimum 1, and hemp or cannabis, Cannabis sativa, male 2, female 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Opium poppy and Cretan milk-vetch
Opium poppy with seedpod, Papaver somniferum 1, and Cretan milk-vetch, Astracantha cretica 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Marijuana or cannabis, Cannabis sativa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Fumitory, Fumaria officinalis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

ILN cover - Dr. Mildred C. Rebstock
Chloromycetin synthesised for the first time by Dr. Mildred C. Rebstock. Chloromycetin was discovered to be a powerful means of fighting typhus and typhoid. On March 27th 1949, Parke, Davis and Co

Chinese workers picking poppies for opium. 1930s

Street in Susanville, Lassen County, California, USA. Date: early 1900s

The Losing Lady And The Cough-Drop, A Hectic Moment At Monte Carlo by H M Bateman. The innocent cough-drop and the worried officials

Professor Paul Ehrlich (1854 - 1915), Nobel Prize-winning German Jewish physician and scientistand Dr. Sahachiro Hata (1873 - 1938) prominent Japanese bacteriologist, working in Frankfort laboratory

VICTIMS OF HASHISH
Four North African victims of hashish, driven out of their minds by the drug and brought under the care of Dr Auguste Voisin of the Salpetriere, Paris. Date: 1876

OPIUM SMOKERS, MALAYSIA
Three Malay smokers of opium Date: circa 1860

Man with marijuana
A Muslim man holds a bunch of wild cannabis, or marijuana plant in the Kashmir Valley near Srinagar, Kashmir. He wears a kufi Islamic hat and a big smile Date: 1986

Interior and Exterior, Phoenix Drug Store, Hamilton, Bermuda
Interior and Exterior of the Phoenix Drug Store, Hamilton, Bermuda. Note the sign in the lower section which proclaims the store as the Headquarters for Souvenir Postcards. Date: circa 1920s

Opium Den in San Francisco
Two men in an opium den in the Chinatown district of San Francisco, one holds a pipe, the other lies alongside a tray of paraphernalia associated with the drug. Date: circa 1895

White opium poppy, Papaver somniferum.. Handcolored botanical copperplate engraving from Joshua Hamiltons Culpepers English Family Physician; or Medical Herbal Enlarged

Smoking Opium, China
Chinese man smoking Opium, China Date: circa 1910s

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