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Lovestruck American lad with the Stars and StripesA lovestruck young American lad smoking a cigarette and standing before the Star Spangled Banner, sends the following words to his lady love: Say kid
Pieter Van RoestratenPIETER VAN ROESTRATEN Dutch-English painter, pipe- smoker and drinker. Date: 1627 - 1700
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
Playing card reverse - advertising for Craven A cigarettes, featuring a stylish woman in 1920s costume with red cloche hat and fur-trimmed overcoat. Date: circa 1920s
Willy Fritsch - German Film and stage actorWilly Fritsch (1901-1973) - German Film and stage actor. Date: circa 1917
Opium Smoking in China Date: circa 1901
Distinguished elderly Japanese Gentleman with pipeDistinguished elderly Japanese Gentleman with elegant long-stemmed pipe. Date: circa 1903
Gentleman puffing away at his pipe in a No Smoking Carriage - " So what??" Date: circa 1940s
Russian Peasant Couple - Fantastic HeaddressRussian Peasant Couple of Southern Russia (Caucasus - possibly Georgia?) - The lady is wearing a fantastic Headdress, typical of this region. Date: circa 1902
Streetwise young scamp talks back at an admonishing woman who is criticising him for smoking." Do you know its very wrong for little boys to smoke tobacco
A portly Landowner enjoying a puff. Date: 1895
French Fisherman - Pas-de-Calais Date: circa 1910
Water Carrier - Algiers, Algeria Date: circa 1908
Young gent - bored at Newlyn, CornwallA lugubrious young gent with hangdog eyes, bemoaning the lack of fun at Newlyn, Cornwall. Quite what the local tourist board felt about this card is anyones guess!! Date: circa 1905
High level Dancers - Egyptian Harem - AlmehAlmeh - a class of courtesans or female entertainers in Arab Egypt, women educated to sing and recite classical poetry and to discourse wittily. Date: circa 1907
BUERO VALLEJO, Antonio (1916-2000). Spanish playwright
LA TOUR, Georges de (1593-1652). The Young Smoker. 1646. Baroque art. Oil on canvas. JAPAN. Tokyo. Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
Gentleman with his Hookah-Burdar or Pipe-Bearer. (Plate 10 of 20) Date: 1813
The Smokers PromenadeSmoking 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 TobaccoTobacco Jack. Capital Cigars Prime Tobacco. A man made out of smoking equipment such as cigars, cigarettes and pipes. Date: 1875
The Pioneer by PjzeskaA confident young woman of the pre-WWI era, nonchalantly smokes a cigarette at a restaurant table, ignoring the shocked expressions of her fellow diners and male waiter. Date: 1930
Napoleon and Josephine enjoy street musicians
France - Elderly water carrierA really extraordinary photographic postcard of an elderly lady water carrier smoking a pipe at Morlaix, Brittany, France Date: circa 1910s
Elderly man smoking
Old French Water Carrier smoking a pipeOld French Water Carrier from Morlaix, Brittany - smoking a pipe. Date: circa 1910s
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
Kensitas cigarettes advertisement, 1953Advertisement for Kensitas cigarettes showing a domestic scene where a man, engaged in the masculine task of hanging a picture, is offered a Kensitas cigarette to steady his nerves. Date: 1953
Daks advertisement, 1951Advertisement for Daks suits, featuring a couple of chaps sporting checked suits, and smoking pipes. Date: 1951
Three Castles Cigarettes advertisement, 1930Advertisement for Willss Three Castles medium cigarettes featuring a picture of a woman looking relaxed as she enjoys one. Date: 1930
Players cigarettes advertisement featuring Mark TwainAdvertisement 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
Abdulla advertisementA young lady named Claudia reclines in a sofa, smoking an Abdullas cigarette. The poem underneath (F. R. Holmes) engages with one of the political questions of the day
1850s woman smoking - flouting conventionA charming water colour of an early female smoker, very much a flouter of the conventions of her day. Date: 1850s
Musical group in an Arab Cafe, EgyptMusical group in an Arab Cafe in Egypt - a woman sits smoking a Nagile pipe. Date: circa 1910
Breton Lady and PipeA female pipe-smoker - Marie-Perrinne de Folgoet- Lesneven (Bretagne) lights up Date: circa 1905
Moorish Algerian Women smokingTwo Moorish Algerian women smoking cigarettes
Sweetness of Doing NothingIl dolce far niente... In Italian, it means " the sweetness of doing nothing"... She is likely a woman from the tribe of Ouled Nail in Southern Algeria in their very distinctive
Auriol Lee (1880 - 1941), British born playwright, theatre director and actress
Miss Calavalava - a known beauty. Smoking a hookah pipe and leaning on a divan
Lady checks her appearance in a dressing table mirrorA glamourous lady in fur trimmed spotted wrap, stockings and high heels, checks her appearance in a slender dressing table mirror, draped with a scarf in a similar fabric to the wrap
Dacia with glass cigarette holder by YevondeDacia, the popular " Chu Chin Chow" dancer demonstrates her new spiral glass cigarette holder. Photograph by Madame Yevonde
Turkish girl sitting in a Turkish cafeA girl sits in a Turkish cafe in Istanbul, smoking a cigarette by the window and drinking a small glass of Turkish brandy
A Seductive Turkish Beauty smokingA beautiful photograph of a seductive Turkish Beauty smoking a cigarette
John Gale, alias Dumb JackUndated copy of etching of John Gale, alias Dumb Jack, in profile, smoking a pipe. HPG/8/2/1 (xxix)
Britannia and Eve, June 1933Front cover illustration featuring a sophisticated looking woman holding a cigarette in her elegant hands
A Uyghur man smoking an elaborate pipe. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts
Izmir, Turkey - Vegetable MarketA Vegetable Market with vegetable sellers at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey
Advertisement for Westminster cigarettesThis advert is trying to appeal to the female smoker
