Hubble 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

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

Iran - Royal Feast
A group of Iranian men (in a variety of states of sobriety!) following a Festan Persan or Royal Persian Feast in Tehran, Iran

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

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

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

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

Tobacco smoking boatman silhouette, Dal Lake, Kashmir
Silhouette of a young man sat in a shikara boat smoking a hookah on Lake Dal, Kashmir Date: 1986

Indian soldier smoking the hubble bubble pipe
A party of Indian sepoys take it in turns to smoke the hubble bubble pipe at a wayside halt. Date: 1916

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

Turkish men on Crete smoking a Nargile pipe
Turkish Cretan men smoking a Nargile pipe

Two Turkish peasants playing Backgammon at an outdoor coffee house

Crete - Cretan Turks smoking Nargile Pipes. Date: circa 1902

Turkish Cafe and patrons, Istanbul, Turkey
Turkish Cafe and patrons, some of whom are smoking hookah or nargile pipes - Istanbul, Turkey. Date: circa 1910s

Turkey - Suleimaniye Mosque, Istanbul
Interesting 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

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

Moorish Cafe - Algeria
Black 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, Egypt
Musical group in an Arab Cafe in Egypt - a woman sits smoking a Nagile pipe. Date: circa 1910

Miss Calavalava - a known beauty. Smoking a hookah pipe and leaning on a divan

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