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Street scene, India, with two men sitting in the entrance to a shop, smoking a hookah. Date: circa 1870s
Tobacco smoking boatman silhouette, Dal Lake, KashmirSilhouette of a young man sat in a shikara boat smoking a hookah on Lake Dal, Kashmir Date: 1986
A selection of the Princes gifts, 1876A selection of the presents made to the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) during his Royal Progress through India in 1875-6. They have been arranged in the India Museum, South Kensington
Lalla Rookh, long narrative poem by Thomas MooreShe found that the short dream of happiness was over -- the title character of Lalla Rookh, a long narrative poem by Thomas Moore, first published in 1817. 19th century
Bukhara, Uzbekistan - Smoking a chillim pipe. In Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, a hookah is called chillim. Date: 1905
Kokand, Uzbekistan - Tea House. As the caption states, " The tea of the Khans tastes better". Kokand was the capital of the of the Kokand Khanate. Date: circa 1909
Uzbekistan - Samarkand - Smoking a Chillum PipeUzbekistan - Samarkand - Local men sharing a smoke of a Chillum Pipe. Date: circa 1905
Arab Dancing GirlAn Arabic woman dances with a veil
Damascus, Syria - Bedouin men making (and drinking) coffee Date: circa 1910s
Yemen (Aden) - Group of local Arab Chiefs, standing and seated, close to a huge nargile pipe Date: circa 1910s
Bosnia Herzegovina - Trebinje. A group of Muslim Carpet and Textile sellers - two are seated and smoking a Hookah Pipe
Two Turkish peasants playing Backgammon at an outdoor coffee house
Gentleman puffing on his pipe - Istanbul, Turkey. Date: 1873
Caliph Stork, an eastern tale -- the Caliph asks Selim the Learned to decipher a document for him which he has bought from the peddler
Wylie-Tate Revue The Peep Show at the HippodromeScenes and Stars of the Wylie-Tate Revue The Peep Show at the Hippodrome, London. 1921
Uzbekistan - General scene with musicians and Samovar - early postcard. Date: 1902
Turkish dancer with a hookah, circa 1890. Date: circa 1890
Egyptian dancer with hookah, circa 1880s. Date: circa 1880s
Kokand, Uzbekistan - Local Tea Shop with Musician playing a dutar (Duttar, dutor, dotar or doutar) - a traditional long-necked two-stringed lute found in Iran and Central Asia
Samarkand, Uzbekistan - Children seated with Chillum and teaSamarkand, Uzbekistan - Children in traditional Uzbek costume seated with Chillum pipe and teapot. Date: circa 1908
Hookahs and Pipes, Plate 129. Date: circa 1880s
Rail Travel in IndiaRail travel in India is very comfortable - for Europeans, with native servants to polish their boots, sustain them with coffee, and keep their hookah in good nick... Date: circa 1860
Racial / Africa / Egypt 1847Local men women and children sit amid the fallen stones of the entrance to the Temple of Amun, Thebes. Date: 1847
Egyptian Public ScribeA public scribe sets his hookah aside while he attends to his client in the streets of Cairo Date: 1849
Hoqqu-burdar or pipe bearer.. handcolored copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from Asiatic Costumes, Ackermann, London, 1828
Woman with hookah, Egypt. Date: circa 1870
Veiled women and child, with hookah, EgyptTwo veiled women and a child, with a hookah, Egypt. Date: circa 1870
Two women with hookah, EgyptTwo women with a hookah, Egypt. Date: circa 1870
Turkish women and hookahThree Turkish women and a hookah. Date: circa 1870
Black Africans at a Moorish Cafe, Algeria - playing a local board game Date: 1905
Crete - Cretan Turks smoking Nargile Pipes. Date: circa 1902
Thessaloniki, Greece - Waiter at a Jewish Cafe Date: circa 1905
Turkish Cafe and patrons, Istanbul, TurkeyTurkish Cafe and patrons, some of whom are smoking hookah or nargile pipes - Istanbul, Turkey. Date: circa 1910s
Girl in the HaremA Harem girl reclines on some patterned cushions. She wears a long red skirt, small red cap and looks upward smiling. Toward her feet is a large Hookah pipe
Tales from Many Lands: Abdulluh, the Wise One. From Treasure no. 259 (30 December 1967)
Turkey - Suleimaniye Mosque, IstanbulInteresting Turkish postcard - a view across the waters of the Bosphorus toward the striking profile of the dome and minarets of the A view across the waters of the Bosphorus toward the striking
Gentleman with his Hookah-Burdar or Pipe-Bearer. (Plate 10 of 20) Date: 1813
Gentleman with his Sircar, or Money Servant. (Plate 9 of 20). Date: 1813
Exotic Turkish Woman of the Harem Date: circa 1904
Reclining Oriental Beauty with Hookah Pipe - sprawled across a divan covered witha beautiful patterned fabric. Date: circa 1902
Turkish Zeibek warrior - Izmir, Turkey. Zeibeks or sometimes Zeybeks were irregular militia and guerilla fighters living in the Aegean Region of the Ottoman Empire. Date: 1905
Four Turkish men in a roomFour men in a room with two windows overlooking a courtyard. All wear Turkish robes and turbans, and three are sitting cross-legged on the floor
Moorish Cafe - AlgeriaBlack African men taking tea and a smoke of a hookah pipe at a drink at a Moorish Cafe - Algeria. Two of the men are playing a board game. Date: circa 1910s
Musical group in an Arab Cafe, EgyptMusical group in an Arab Cafe in Egypt - a woman sits smoking a Nagile pipe. Date: circa 1910
Tobacco, GrandvilleLe Tabac: a tobacco plant, and the accoutrements of smoking: pipes, cigars, hookah, surmount the globe; the world is addicted Date: 1847
Father and child in a field, IndiaA man crouches and smokes an elaborate pipe in a cleared field, India. His young child stands beside him. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts
Carpet Sellers - Constantinople, TurkeyCarpet Selling in the Constantinople Bazaar from an open stall
Miss Calavalava - a known beauty. Smoking a hookah pipe and leaning on a divan