Drug Collection (page 2)

Smoking opium in France
Men smoking in a Chinese opium den in Toulon, France. 1907

Women police dog handlers with drug sniffer dogs, London
Two women police dog handlers with drug sniffer dogs, Met Police, London. They are (left) Sandra Kertzen with Snoopy, and (right) Lyn Nicholson with Barry

Street scene in Bismarck, North Dakota, USA
Street scene viewed from above in Bismarck, North Dakota, USA, with various shops and bars. Date: circa 1908

China - A Chinese Opium Den and Smokers Date: circa 1910s

Kief (Hashish / Maruijana / Cannabis) Smoker - Algeria
Hashish Smoker (or Kif (kef, Kief, keef), Cannabis, Marijuana) - Algeria. Traditionally kief has been pressed into cakes as hashish for convenience in storage and shipping

Traffic Policeman at Heyls Corner, Hamilton, Bermuda. Date: circa 1963

Brenda Dean Paul, socialite and notorious drug addict, pictured here in 1931 in her party frock at a costume ball given by Mr. Arthur Jeffress

Opium Poppy pickers - near Afyon, Turkey
Opium Poppy Pickers. The pickers have faces covered to prevent too much ingestion of the crop! The name of the city of Afyon is derivated from Opium

Izmir, Turkey - Opium Cultivation
Opium poppies and their exporter, J Taranto (from J Taranto & Sons - Exporters of Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey) (left) at a field likely to be close to Afyon

London Trade Card - Richard Siddall, Chemist at the Golden Head in Panton Street near the Haymarket. 18th century

The opium clipper Wild Dayrell
Illustration showing the schooner constructed by John and Robert White, of the Medina Docks, Cowes, for the firm Dent and Co. of Hong Kong. Date: 1855

Woman police dog handler with drug sniffer dog, London
Woman police dog handler Sandra Kertzen with drug sniffer dog Snoopy in action, Met Police, London. The yellow labrador was one of the first to be trained by a WPC. (4 of 5) Date: 1971

San Joaquin Valley Bank, Stockton, California, USA
San Joaquin Valley Bank, Center Street, Stockton, California, USA. Date: circa 1908

American street scene with tram and people -- including a drug store Sawyer & Filley, Doctor Redpath, The Pfister bar, The Oxford cinema, Walk Over shoes, E Dailey & Co outfitters

San Marcus Building, Santa Barbara, California, USA
San Marcus Building, State Street, Santa Barbara, California, USA. Date: 1915

Vaccine laboratories, Glenolden, Pennsylvania, USA
Vaccine laboratories of the H K Mulford Company, Glenolden, Pennsylvania, USA. Built in the late 1890s, the laboratories produced the first commercial diphtheria antitoxin in the USA. Date: 1910s

First Avenue, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, USA. Date: circa 1910

Shops in Viborg, South Dakota, USA -- the Clyde A Keller drugstore and Olsen hardware store. Date: circa 1930

Hotel Mahackemo, South Norwalk, Connecticut, USA
Hotel Mahackemo, on the corner of Washington Street and South Main Street, South Norwalk, Connecticut, USA. Date: 1907

Opium poppy flower fairy, Papaver somniferum.. Handcolored steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from Les Fleurs Animees, Flower Fairies, Paris

Watsons Block, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
Watsons Block, East Main Street, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA. Date: 1916

Two opium smokers, China
Two opium smokers reclining, China. Date: circa 1890

Italian advertisement for Calming Fort Effective In headaches, tooth pain, colds, flu, and periodic rheumatism Pharmaceutical laboratory

Advertisement for Horsfords Acid Phosphate
Horsfords Acid Phosphate, for mental & physical exhaustion, dyspepsia. It makes a delicious drink with water and sugar only. Rumford Chemical works

Advertisement for Shaker Family Pills
Shaker Family Pills Cure Sick Headache. A.J.White, Proprietor, 168 Duane Street, New York

Packets of Cocaine
Packets of cocaine, presumably confiscated during drugs raids. Date: early 1930s

Advertisement for Daxaids -- a hand with a white pill. 1959

Opium Smoking in China Date: circa 1901

Chinese Opium Smokers. In 1907, the Chinese Government condemned Opium smoking (and addiction) as the greatest curse of the country and passed laws to restrict its use. Date: circa 1908

Cannabis sativa, hemp
Illustration of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa), by James Kerr (1738-1782). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Nicotiana tabacum, tobacco
One of the 162 decorative panels depicting flora that form the ceiling of the Central Hall at the Natural History Museum, London

Cannabis sativa, cannabis
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Erythroxylum coca, coca

Erythroxylon coca, coca
Plate 40 from Medicinal Plants by Robert Bentley & Henry Trimen, Vol 1 1880. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Cannabis sativa, marijuana
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Cinchona officianalis illustration, quinine
From the Plate Collection of the Natural History Museum, London

Medical plants. Poppy (Papaver somniferum). Engraving

Milk truckers do not! pick up milk at farms where there are cases of diphtheria, scarlet fever, infantile paralysis, spinal meningitis, smallpox, typhoid Report all cases on your route to

Drug poster. Date c1871 May 19

Vegetables (at left) and school supplies in drug store window in mining town. Osage, West Virginia. Date 1938 Sept

German breaches of the hague convention
Injecting chilblains serum into the feet of the British. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans Date: 1916

Interpol, Paris, 1960S
A drug-smuggling map of the world, with lines showing the routes by which narcotics are taken from country to country. Date: 1960s

Plants / Erythroxylon Coca
Medicinal plant whose leaves are the source of cocaine, chewed cheerfully by Bolivian natives but frowned on by those who know better. Date: 1873

A corner shop drug store (pharmacy), Davenport, Nebraska, America. Built in 1901, owned by C. C. Mcleese

Trendy young woman in a cafe in Nice, France
An attractive, trendy young woman with long dark hair, wearing a long leather coat, eating a pastry in a cafe in Nice, South of France

Nurse at the Medical Centre, Hendon
Scene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, with a nurse selecting medicines from a cupboard, while referring to a checklist on a clipboard

Drug Store, Mecosta Village, Michingan
Drug Store, Mecosta Village, Michigan, USA. Mecosta today only has a population of c440 people!!

Drugstore at Limon, Colorado, USA situated on the intersection of Highways 24, 40, 71 and 287

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