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Harvesting TobaccoTobacco plant, and scene of harvesting the tobacco crop in central Africa Date: 1900
Tobacco Harvest, AfricaHarvesting the tobacco crop, Central Africa Date: circa 1900
Cigar LightersTwo lighters, including the Chronometer Automatic lighter, which will ignite in all conditions of wind and weather. circa 1909
Drugs / Tobacco / SmokingBetween two fires - one a cigar-smoker, the other with a cigarette in a holder Date: 1898
Chinese opium traderA Chinese opium trader at his desk. Date: 1882
Making Snuff BoxesSnuff box manufacture Date: 18th Century
Panorama, Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USAPanoramic view of Fourth and Mendocino Streets in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, USA, before the earthquake of 18 April 1906. Date: 1906
San Joaquin Valley Bank, Stockton, California, USASan Joaquin Valley Bank, Center Street, Stockton, California, USA. Date: circa 1908
Woman smoking cigaretteElegant lady smoking elegantly Fumate Regina cigarettes Date: 1932
Vaccine laboratories, Glenolden, Pennsylvania, USAVaccine 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
North Carson Street, Carson City, Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1940s
Broughton Street, Savannah, Georgia, USABroughton Street seen from Bull Street, Savannah, Georgia, USA. Date: circa 1908
Shops in Viborg, South Dakota, USA -- the Clyde A Keller drugstore and Olsen hardware store. Date: circa 1930
State Street, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Date: circa 1905
Walnut Street, Kansas City, Missouri, USAView of Walnut Street (north from Tenth Street), Kansas City, Missouri, USA, on a busy day. Date: 1922
WW2 Poster -- Tablet dayTablet day! Colour lithograph poster after 2nd Lt Stacey Hopper. Medical related poster for British soldiers on active service in Italy
Two opium smokers, ChinaTwo opium smokers reclining, China. Date: circa 1890
A shamisen player, lighting her pipeA Japanese lady in traditional costume lays her shamisen(a musical instrument with three strings, also written samsin), to one side, so she can light her kiseru or pipe, aided by another woman
Italian advertisement for Calming Fort Effective In headaches, tooth pain, colds, flu, and periodic rheumatism Pharmaceutical laboratory
Advert for Sanitas - family antiseptic for wounds 1937Just a small wound but.... I never run the risk of blood poisoning. As soon as any member of my family gets a scratch or cut, let alone a more serious wound, I instantly apply Sanitas
Advertisement for Horsfords Acid PhosphateHorsfords Acid Phosphate, for mental & physical exhaustion, dyspepsia. It makes a delicious drink with water and sugar only. Rumford Chemical works
Advertisement for Shaker Family PillsShaker Family Pills Cure Sick Headache. A.J.White, Proprietor, 168 Duane Street, New York
Egyptian CigarettesAbdullah Egyptian cigarettes in stylish leather cases. Date: 1930s
Cigarette Holder & CaseCigarettes in a stylish holder and a case. Date: 1930s
The Art of SmokingA young model wearing lots of make-up and a pearl necklace demonstrates how cool it used to be to smoke cigarettes. Date: late 1920s
Fashionable SmokerA fashionable lady smoker with dark hair in a Marcel wave, elegantly smoking a cigarette. Date: late 1920s
Packets of CocainePackets of cocaine, presumably confiscated during drugs raids. Date: early 1930s
Anti-Smoking CampaignAn anti-smoking campaign stall in Tokyo, Japan, with a man pouring a cup of tea for another man. Date: early 1930s
Pelele and PipeA Congo West African with lip plates (pelele), smoking a pipe. Date: early 1930s
Ashtray StandA stylish ashtray stand, for smokers, in the days when smoking was still regarded as glamorous. Date: early 1930s
Chinese Cig. PosterA charming poster of an innocent Chinese girl whose health is being destroyed by the fiendish British Cigarette Company - a typical example of ruthless consumerism. Date: 1930s
Advertisement for Daxaids -- a hand with a white pill. 1959
Opium Smoking in China Date: circa 1901
Medical plants. Poppy (Papaver somniferum). Engraving
The age of drugs. Illustration shows the interior of a drugstore with an elderly man, the pharmacist, dispensing a Bracer to a crowd of eager consumers
Advert for Craven CigarettesCraven A cigarettes - quality never varies they re always smooth and fresh! Date: 1937
Advert for Craven A cigarettes 1935Craven A - And the reason for her choice? The only cigarette which does not affect her throat, and does not stain her fingers or lips. 1935
Advert for Craven Cigarettes 1939
Fab Smokers StandThis fabulous Smokers Stand is not only more decorative than the old wooden type, but more useful, because it cannot possibly topple over. Date: 1930s
Sharkskin Cigar CaseA cigar case and cutter made of sharkskin, with silver trims. Date: 1930s
Art Deco Cigarette CaseA stylish Art Deco cigarette case, with an ash tray and a box of matches beside it. Date: 1930s
Shagreen Cigarette CaseA cigarette case of silver and shagreen, painted wood matchbox and a wooden cigarette holder. Date: 1930s
Cigarette Accessories
Interpol, Paris, 1960SA drug-smuggling map of the world, with lines showing the routes by which narcotics are taken from country to country. Date: 1960s
Girl & Bathroom CabinetA little girl in a matching t- shirt and shorts with cats on them, ventures into the dangerous world of the bathroom cabinet... Date: 1960s
Tobacco, GrandvilleLe Tabac: a tobacco plant, and the accoutrements of smoking: pipes, cigars, hookah, surmount the globe; the world is addicted Date: 1847
Boys Smoking CiggiesOne boy lights the cigarette of another in a Liverpool street Date: 1960s
Smoking Large PipeA group of village men in conversation, one reading a newspaper, another smoking a very large pipe Date: 19th century