Pipes Collection (page 9)

Chinese gentleman and stableboy exchanging a light with their pipes. Date between 1761 and 1764

The old Philadelphia fire department. Period of 1850. Date c1883 Apr. 20

Hot Dog by William Heath Robinson
An ingenious central heating device for bathing on chilly morning of the early part of the season. A smug and rather rotund gentleman tests out a typically convoluted Heath Robinson invention

Boy playing pan pipes - Silhouette Date: circa 1920s

Five styles of tobacco or opium pipes. Date 1878 Dec

Street music: A bird mimic, 1816
A street musician who mimics the notes of common English birds by means of a folded bit of tin, which is held between the teeth; but in order to engage the attention of the credulous

The Smokers Promenade
Smoking is the consolation of the universal nation; From the hovel to the palace, All enjoy tobaccos solace. People smoking cigars, pipes and cigarettes Date: 1876

Capital Cigars Prime Tobacco
Tobacco Jack. Capital Cigars Prime Tobacco. A man made out of smoking equipment such as cigars, cigarettes and pipes. Date: 1875

Musicians from A Coruna, Spain
Musicians from A Coruna (La Coruna), Spain - an older man playing a form of bagpipes and a boy with a side drum. Date: circa 1908

Elderly man smoking

Exhaust Fumes
Even back in the 1960s, car exhaust pipes caused air pollution! Date: 1960s

Man reading newspaper
Reading the newspaper with his long pipe in his hand. 1910. Date: 1910

Malaysia - Men from the Sohail Tribe using blow pipes to hunt birds and small mammals with poison darts Date: 1928

Indian Snake Charmers Date: circa 1910s

A Hearing - Four Egyptian men sitting outside a Cafe have their quiet discussion rudely interrupted by a wandering (and very noisy) bagpipe player! Date: circa 1916

Smoking Cyclists
Four cycling club boys take a break from their healthy exercise - one of them has a drink, while the other three smoke pipes! Date: 1930s

Singing Mothers Choir - Salt Lake Tabernacle, Utah, USA
The 900 Singing Mothers of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints (The Mormons) Relief Society performing in front of the organ inside the Salt Lake Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Utah

Sicilian Bagpipes Player - A Zampognaro
A Sicilian Zampognaro or pipe-player, holding his massive set of Sicilian bagpipes. Date: circa 1910s

Salt Lake Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
The 900 Singing Mothers of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints (The Mormons) Relief Society performing in front of the organ inside the Salt Lake Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Utah

Great Organ in the Mormon Tabernacle - Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Date: circa 1910s

Natives of a cold country sitting round a fire
Natives of a cold country (probably Inuit Eskimos) sitting round a fire in a wood, smoking their pipes. Date: 19th century

Pipers of the 5th Infantry Battalion of the Egyptian army
The pipers of the 5th Infantry Battalion of the Egyptian army in Alexandria, on the occasion of the arrival of Sir Henry McMahon, the new British High Commissioner for Egypt 1915

Do you ever hear the fairies? You can hear them if you will, singing little songs of dream, when all the house is still. 20th century

Players cigarettes advertisement featuring Mark Twain
Advertisement for Players Navy Cut Tobacco and cigarettes featuring American novelist, Mark Twain together with an endorsement of the beautifully cool and sweet smoking tobacco he has in his pipe

Fashions of the future as predicted in 1930
An idea of what the girls of the future will look like according to C. B. Cochrans 1930 Revue shown in Manchester and the West End

Farmers from Debrecen, Hungary, wearing incredible capes, smoking long-stemmed pipes and sporting fabulous waxed moustaches! Date: circa 1910s

Performing seals at a circus, c. 1890
Talented performing seals of c. 1890 shown playing musical instruments, smoking pipes and even firing cannons! Date: c.1890

Four Turkish men in a room
Four 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

Turkish woman brought coffee
A woman in oriental robes sits smoking a pipe with a very long stem while her servant brings her coffee. There are richly ornamented carpets on the floor. 1756

Toutoun Bashi - Chief of the Tobacco
The Toutoun Bashi of the Grand Vizier or, Chief of the Tobacco. He wears a green robe and a red and white turban and carries a tobacco pipe with a very long stem. 1803

The Queens Dolls House - a section showing Electric Lighting and Water Systems Date: 1924

Tobacco, Grandville
Le Tabac: a tobacco plant, and the accoutrements of smoking: pipes, cigars, hookah, surmount the globe; the world is addicted Date: 1847

Harvest Festival at Castleford, Yorkshire
A Harvest Festival display at the United Methodist Church, Whitwood Mere, near Castleford, Yorkshire. Included in the photo is the organist, Bower M Stoker, and a lay preacher, Job Harling

Smoking Large Pipe
A group of village men in conversation, one reading a newspaper, another smoking a very large pipe Date: 19th century

Breton Lady and Pipe
A female pipe-smoker - Marie-Perrinne de Folgoet- Lesneven (Bretagne) lights up Date: circa 1905

Britannia and Eve front cover, February 1932
Front cover of Britannia and Eve magazine featuring a typical 1930s couple seated on the ground, looking like spectators at a sporting event. She is in a chic red suit with matching hat

Inmates of the Chelsea workhouse, London
Elderly male inmates relax in a garden of the Chelsea workhouse, London. Some are smoking pipes, some are reading newspapers, others are feeding birds

Tennyson and Carlyle
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892) (left) and Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) talking and smoking together in the garden of Carlyles house

Seven members of the Royal Naval Division (RND), relaxing outside their tents at a camp. The service was formed in September 1914 to fight alongside the army during the First World War

Military band with instruments in front of a tent
A military band, the Brecknockshire Battalion South Wales Borderers, together with their instruments, including six drums, posing for their photo in front of a tent

Filling large fuel barrels - Hackney Wick
A factory employee checks progress as large barrels are filled with fuel oil at Hackney Wick, London

Man and Woman from Isle of Tanna, New Hebrides
Man and Woman from Isle of Tanna, an island of Vanuatu, New Hebrides. A book of national types and costumes from the early 19th century

Dublin Easter Rising - May, 1916
Dublin Easter Rising - view behind the barricade - British troops under fire on Talbot Street, holding a barricade against a rebel charge - May 1916

German gas attack preparation WWI
German soldiers laying out lead pipes for gas attack on the Western Front during World War I

Heinz Zinrams photography studio, Baker Street, London
A view of Heinz Zinrams photography studio, above the Cavendish Hood antique shop at No. 2 Baker Street, London. Examples of his photography of children are on display in the doorway

Winemaking equipment, Camara de Lobos, Madeira, Portugal
An antique object used in the making of wine, in the showroom of Henriques & Henriques SA, Camara de Lobos, near Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

France - Le Faouet - Breton Men playing bagpipes
France - Le Faouet - Morbihan Departement - Binious Breton Men playing a horn and bagpipes

Arabian Merchant - promotional card
Promotional postcard for an Algerian merchant selling items from across North Africa and the Middle East. English Spoken !

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