Drugs Collection

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

No Smoking, Ladies
This West End restaurant was one of the first to reserve tables for non-smokers after objections were raised. These three ladies disobey the notice on their table

Boots advertisement, 1913
Advertisement for Boots the Chemists from 1913, offering Drugs, Gifts and Your ideals realised. Date: 1913

Woman Smoking 1940S
A young housewife exhales a stream of smoke as she takes a break from her household tasks. By the end of World War Two, nearly half of the women in Britain had a smoking habit

Old & New Pipes / Heath
The old way of smoking a pipe & the new way: an upright Georgian gent smokes his long stemmed clay pipe while a semi-recumbent Regency fop, puffs away on his hookah

Cigars Label
Cigar label for Havana cigars manufactured by M Valle in Cuba

Gentlemen Smoking Cigars
A languid group of Victorian gentlemen smoking cigars in front of the fire

John Bews shop front in Guernsey, Channel Islands
John Bew, Wholesale & Retail Tobacco & Cigar Merchant, and Ship Insurance Agent -- his shop front in Guernsey, Channel Islands, with a female assistant standing in the doorway. Date: circa 1905

A Smoking Party C. 1825
A gentlemens smoking party

Lighting a Cigarette
A monochrome woman lights her cigarette from a candle in a red and black interior

Smoking & Jazzing / Pan
Jazzing

Tobacco Ban Threat
Beware, Mr Smoker, your turn is next ! - a prophetic satire from the Prohibition Era in America

Raleigh Smoking
Sir Walter Raleigh, credited with bringing the tobacco habit to Britain, enjoys his pipe

East End Opium Den
An opium den in Londons East End - sixpenceworth, which is about a thimble-full and half as much again, seems to be the ordinary allowance

European Pipes
Pipes from various parts of Europe - Norway, France, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Germany, Bohemia and Greece [for details see the text]

Raleighs Pipes
His pipes and tobacco pouch

United States Air Force - Convair VT-29B O-51-3811
United States Air Force Convair VT-29B (msn 239) O-51-3811. Entering service as a standard T-29B, 3811 was converted to NT-29B with extra dorsal and ventral radomes

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

AMERICAN TOBACCO GROWER
An American tobacco grower sits leaning on a barrel of the tobacco which will be sent away to poison the lives of millions of wretched victims doomed to a miserable death Date: 1871

HASHISH & ASSASSINS
THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN drugs his corps of assassins with hashish, which inspires them with dreams of the houris they will find when they die and go to Heaven... Date: 13th century

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, William & Rose, with a pair of reefs down - a completely blank, blue rectangle. What could it possibly mean? Answers on a postcard, please! Date: 20th century

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

Advert for Beechams Pills, 1925 Date: 1925

Advert, T & H Smith Limited, Edinburgh and Glasgow
Advert for T & H Smith Limited, Morphine and Codeine manufacturers, Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland. 1905

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

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

Adverts, T & H Smith Limited, John Beggs Scotch Whisky
Adverts for T & H Smith Limited, manufacturers of morphine and codeine, Edinburgh, London and Glasgow, and John Beggs Scotch Whisky, Royal Lochnagar Distillery, Scotland. 1905

Chinese workers picking poppies for opium. 1930s

Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada, USA
Virginia Street (looking north), Reno, Nevada, USA. Date: 1930

Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street, California, USA
Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, with Pantages Theatre on the left and the Taft Building on the right. Date: 1947

Street pharmacist with tray of drugs, China, East Asia
Street pharmacist with his tray of drugs, China, East Asia. Date: 1922

Advertisement on a postcard, Evans Pastilles
Pharmaceuticals advertisement on a postcard, Evans Pastilles for sore throats (in Spanish), with an elegant woman in a hat. Date: circa 1908

Advertisement on a postcard, Evans Carlsbad Salts
Pharmaceuticals advertisement on a postcard, Evans Carlsbad Salts for liver, gout and rheumatism (in Spanish), with an elegant woman in a hat. Date: circa 1908

Advertisement on a postcard, Evans Membroids
Pharmaceuticals advertisement on a postcard, Evans Membroids (in Spanish), with an elegant woman in a hat. Date: circa 1908

Advert,s Moss, Druggist, Operative & Experimental Chemist, High Street, Cheltenham. 1826

People smoking cigarettes
A lady offers cigarettes to her companions 1892

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

SMOKING ACCESSORIES
A man wearing a ring and cufflinks shows off some extremely stylish smoking accessories, including an ashtray, lighter, cigarette case, pipe, candle holder &c Date: 1930s

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

A CIGARETTE AND A COFFEE
A young woman sits in a comfortable armchair, jacket over her shoulders, and enjoys a cigarette with her coffee. Date: 1940s

MY FIRST SMOKE (2 OF 2)
A young man has his first smoke from a pipe, but feels rather unwell as a result (2 of 2). Date: 1882

MY FIRST SMOKE (1 OF 2)
A young man enjoys his first smoke from a pipe (1 of 2). Date: 1882

IVORY CIGARETTE HOLDER
Carved ivory cigarette holders are fashionable... Date: 1930s

MAN LIGHTING CIGARETTE
A young man lights up a cigarette outside in the street Date: 1960s

CHOKED BY SMOKERS
A lady is choked by smokers as she walks along the pavement Date: 1843

LIGHTING HIS PIPE
While a young man smokes a very long pipe, his partner lights it with a hot coal from the stove Date: 1850

OPIUM SMOKING TOOLS
The equipment of a serious Chinese opium smoker Date: 1893

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