Hookah Collection

Algeria - Woman smoking a nargile pipe
Algeria - woman smoking a nargile (Hookah Pipe)

Turkish Lady on a settee smoking
A Turkish lady reclining quizzically on an Ottoman settee, smoking a narghile pipe, whilst drinking coffee

Alice in Wonderland, Alice and a caterpillar
Alice in Wonderland, Alice meets a caterpillar sitting on a mushroom, smoking a hookah. Date: early 20th century

Thessaloniki, Greece - Turkish Coffee Shop Waiter. Date: circa 1910s

Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey - Harem Women
Harem women from Smyrna (Izmir), Turkey

Interior of the Harem with a scribe. Date: circa 1910s

Egyptian Lady of the Harem
An Egyptian Lady of the Harem, reclining on a couch and smoking a nargile pipe Date: 1910s

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

Persian Village, South Persia (Iran)
Scene in a Persian Village, South Persia (Iran). Date: circa 1910s

Morocco - Interior of an Arab house
Three women in the interior of a Morrocan Arab house

Men with hookah pipe playing board game, Egypt, c. 1880 s
Men with hookah pipe playing board game, Egypt, c.1880 s

Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Shah of Persia, sitting on his bed throne with scimitar and hookah pipe. Princes to the right, court clerks at left, and other courtiers

Portraits of the Kings of Persia. Shah Tahmasp 1, Shah Abbas the Great 2, Nadir Shah 3, Mohammad Karim Khan Zand 4. Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar 5 and Fath-Ali Shah Qajar 6. Ritratti di Re de Persia

A man sits in a back street tea shop in Cairo, Egypt and smokes a hookah, or hubble bubble. His white clothes are spotted with red stains

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

Young Turkish woman, Turkey, c. 1880 s
Young Turkish woman, Turkey, c.1880 s

Young Armenian woman, Turkey, c. 1880 s
Young Armenian woman, Turkey, c.1880 s, with hookah

Woman from Jerusalem, c. 1880 s, with hookah
Woman from Jerusalem, c.1880 s

Two young Egyptian woman with hookah pipe, Egypt, c. 1880 s
Two young Egyptian woman with hookah pipe, Egypt, c.1880 s

Tobacco merchant, Cairo, Egypt, c. 1880 s
Tobacco merchant, Cairo, Egypt, c.1880 s

1880s - young Egyptian women being served coffee

Local shop, Cairo Bazaar, Egypt Date: circa 1900s

Young Indian woman with gazelle, 18th century
Young bare-breasted Indian woman in transparent dress and veil pulling down branches toward a young gazelle. Giovanetta indiana. From an Indian miniature

Private quarters of an Ottoman official. Officials in robes sit on a divan in a large carpeted room. Appartement d un ministre de la Porte

Englishman sitting smoking a hookah, India
Englishman sitting smoking a hookah, approached by a Muslim greeting him with Salaam. 1835

Amirs of Scinde, ethnic group from Sindh, India
Amirs (commanders) of Scinde, an Indian ethnic group from Sindh (now a province of Pakistan). Date: 1843

Fath Ali Chah, second Qajar emperor or Shah of Iran (1772-1832). Illustration from Guillaume-Antoine Oliviers Travels in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and Persia, 1801

Indian servants clothes: hukabardar or hookah pipe bearer, caukidar or watchman, serkar or steward, jamadar or head servant, seated banian or chief servant comptroller, chobdar or mace bearer

An Indian woman seated on a rich carpet attended by servants
An Indian woman at a gala seated on a rich carpet with containers of betelnut and perfume, attended by an ayah or servants with punya (fan), pawn and snake hookah pipe

Different types of hookah pipes of India: gargara, snake hookah, narikel, cheroot, narikel and gargara. Handcoloured copperplate drawn

Indian men with hookah pipe and fan relaxing under a canopy. Members of the third caste of Vaisyas, or farmers, merchants and officials

Costumes of the natives of Dalagoa Bay, Mozambique
Costumes of the tattooed natives of Dalagoa Bay (Maputo Bay), Mozambique, in front of a village of circular huts. Man smoking tobacco with a curious hookah pipe made of bamboo and cow horn

Ali Pasha with hookah. 1820

Men in a street market, Istanbul, Turkey, with baskets of fruit and vegetables. Date: circa 1900s

Turkish man smoking a hookah, with a woman serving coffee Date: circa 1830

An Arab camp - a camel is given water whilst men rest in tents, smoking and drinking. Date: early 19th century

Scene in the environs of Calcutta 1857
Suburbs of Calcutta, where a native merchant returning from the city transported in a horse-drawn carriage passes-through at high speed

Arabian Cafe / Coffee House - Suez, Egypt Date: circa 1908

Women smoking a Chibouk Pipe - Southern Algeria. Date: circa 1901

Persian coffee house 1856
Men and women smoking vapor Hookah flavored tobacco. Date: 1856

Turkish coffee house 1853
Turkish men seated on cushioned benches, along three sides, smoking the tchibouk or narghile. Date: 1853

Smoking party in India
India; a smoking-party in Bengal Date: 1809

Turkish man with hookah
Turkish man smoking hookah in cafe on the old Galatti Bridge, Istanbul, Turkey. A photograph of 7th Turkish President Ahmet Kenan Evren is on the wall Date: circa 1980

Cocoonery - Silk Manufacture - Syria. Date: circa 1905s

Two women smoke from a hookah pipe, Algeria
Two women smoke from a hookah pipe in Algeria, North Africa. One woman is seated and holds the stem of the sheesha pipe near her mouth, ready to inhale

Hardware Shop, Baghdad, Iraq. Date: circa 1920s

Egyptian Lady of the Turkish Harem
Egyptian lady of the Turkish Harem, smoking a Hookah Pipe and reclining on a armchair. The true historical nature of the Turkish/Eastern/Ottoman Harem was the housing of the women

Street scene, India, with two men sitting in the entrance to a shop, smoking a hookah. Date: circa 1870s

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