Smokes Collection

Winston Churchill Holding a Sub-Machine Gun
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) - pictured holding a Sub-Machine Gun. Date: circa 1940

An Alligator - all dressed up to meet you in Florida, USA. Date: 1935

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

Sentimental German wartime postcard
You, Only you alone are my true love - a sentimental wartime postcard sent from a German soldier to his girl back home in Munich

Huntsman with Cigar
Hughie A huntsman in traditional attire smokes a large cigar

Madimba - Congo - Pipe-smoking lady
A rather powerful looking lady from the Congo, smoking a pipe and carrying a large wicker basket on her head. She is the wife of the Chief of the Mpongo Tribe of Kibweta, Madimba, Congo, Africa

Terrible accident - Lady ablaze - Figure 1
Figure 1 of 2. Terrible accident - Lady ablaze, her dress has caught fire and she is engulfed by the inferno. This illustration shows that if one is upright

Chinese Farmer with Palmleaf Raincoat carrying hoe and smoking a cheroot. Date: circa 1905

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

Woman selling Mangoes on the street - Dakar, Senegal
Moorish Woman selling Mangoes on the street - Dakar, Senegal Date: circa 1950s

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

The Tatler Summer Number front cover 1932
Jolly front cover design for the Tatlers Summer Number featuring two cheery beach belles wearing fashionable pyjama suits. One smokes a cigarette while the other grins under a wide brimmed sun hat

Chinese Mandarin
A Chinese Mandarin in ceremonial court costume

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

Italian Miner - Mineo, Sicily. It is likely he was employed to mine the local calcareous ashlars, used to build many of Mineos public buildings

New Woman Poster ?1896
The New Woman: a bookish frumpy young woman in plain clothes & monocle sits on a stool surrounded by improving books. She also smokes judging by the cigarette in the corner

Terrible accident - Lady ablaze - Figure 2
Figure 2 of 2. Terrible accident - Lady ablaze, her dress has caught fire and she has fallen to the ground unconscious. This illustration shows that if one lies down horizontally

Temperance Movement - The Perils of too much beer and baccy... Date: circa 1900

Miss Rudi Verdi - Actress
Miss Rudi Verdi with cigarette in hand - British Actress (?-1918) Date: circa 1910s

Megalomania
A portrait illustration of a large lady wearing a white dress and a yellow hat with orange floral decoration, looking down at a child acting older than his age, as he smokes a cigar at her knee

A banker puts his feet up on his desk and smokes a cigar. Date: late 1960s

A man puts his feet up on his desk as he smokes a cigar. Date: late 1960s

St Marylebone Workhouse Inmates
Aged male inmates of Londons St Marylebone workhouse sit in their airing yard, chatting, reading newspapers and smoking pipes. Date: circa 1905

Sami people, Laplanders, man and woman of Lapland, 1818. The man holds a brace of fish and points to a man riding a sleigh drawn by a reindeer

A regiment of Belgian troops en route to Mexico
The Belgian-Mexican regiment on board The Louisiana on their way to Mexico. A group of soldiers sit around a pot of food, eating

Advertisement for Players Medium Navy Cut cigarettes
The Cut of the Navy - Players Please - fantastic advertisement for Players Medium Navy Cut cigarettes, featuring a Royal Naval Lieutenant (note sleeve rank insignia) (out on manoeuvres)

Albert, Duke of York - Point-to-Point at Great Brington
Prince Albert, Duke of York (future King George VI) (1895-1952) - having a cigarette whilst sharing a bit of local gossip with Old Smiler (a character present at most hunt meetings)

LIGHTING HIS PIPE
While a young man smokes a very long pipe, his partner lights it with a hot coal from the stove Date: 1850

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

Woman sits astride Polar bear rug and dreams of her beloved
A French Woman sits astride a Polar bear rug and dreams of her beloved, as the smoke rings take on his visage set within a loving heart. Date: circa 1920s

Early Egyptian Cigarette Packet - Front and Back (combined) - manufactured by C Colombos Ltd. of Malta and Cairo using Turkish Tobacco. The reverse image is of the Ayasofya Mosque in Istanbul

Mother and her two boys in the garden
Mother (with fag in her mouth) and her two (rather glum-faced) boys, pose for a photograph in their neat garden. Date: 1938

Hand-drawn postcard of King Edward VII in profile
Hand-drawn postcard of King Edward VII of England (1841-1910) in profile. Date: circa 1908

Market Reports Illustrated - Tobacco"
Market Reports Illustrated - " Tobacco - There was a sudden downward tendency!" A school Master spies three naughty boys grabbing a crafty smoke outside the school wall

Aged Sami Fortuneteller - Norway
Aged Sami (Saami) Fortuneteller - Norway. Date: circa 1910s

Where Ignorance is Bliss by H M Bateman, this illustration shows a man warming his behind in front of the fire while he smokes his pipe. But he is unaware of the flames leaping up his back

Smoking Baby in a cigar box wearing a silk top hat. Not the best start in life health-wise... Quite bizarre. Date: 1904

Old Man, Flat Cap & Pipe
A characterful old man wearing a flat cap smokes his pipe. Date: 1950s

Laplanders - Norway
Lapp farmers in full furs

Miss May de Sousa - EAmerican singer and actress
Date: 1907

Pipe-smoking Syrian Dervish with fantastic hairstyle. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Bukhara, Uzbekistan - Smoking a chillim pipe. In Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, a hookah is called chillim. Date: 1905

Elderly Chinese man in hat smoking a long pipe
Fantastic photographic postcard of an elderly Chinese man wearing a wide-brimmed woven straw hat smoking a very long-stemmed pipe. Date: circa 1910s

Abdullah cigarettes advertisement, WW1 - trench rats
One of a series of advertisements for Abdullah cigarettes during the First World War illustrated by Lewis Baumer. This one employs the familiar image of a British Tommy dismayed to find that

When Women Vote A Proposal. When Women Vote, they will propose to the men. Lady down on one knee asks, Percy Darling, will you marry me? Man replies coyly, Really, you had better ask Mamma Miss

China - A Chinese Opium Den and Smokers Date: circa 1910s

Damascus, Syria - Bedouin men making (and drinking) coffee Date: circa 1910s

Advert for Gold Flake Cigarettes
Advertisement for Gold Flake Cigarettes: Willss Gold Flake give value in the Cigarettes, Date: 1930

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