Smokes Collection (page 2)

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

Japan - Reclining Geisha girl smoking
Japan - Reclining Geisha girl in a fine kimono smoking before a beautiful decorative screen. Date: circa 1910s

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

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

Old man in traditional costume - Albania - amking a cigarette using a cigarette holder

Gabon - Africa - Woman with Scarification
A Woman from Sibiti, Gabon - part of the Bakota (or Kota) - a Bantu ethnic group from the northeastern region of the country

WWI - German Lady wearing a uniform
An unusual photographic postcard depicting a young German woman wearing an ill-fitting uniform, possibly belonging to her boyfriend?

Couple on holiday stroll along the promenade at Felixstowe, Suffolk. The badges on his jacket hint that perhaps he is a railwayman

Sailmaker at work, Penzance, Cornwall
An elderly sailmaker (Arthur Willoughby), working in the traditional way in Penzance, Cornwall. circa early 1980s

Lady smoking a Batschari cigarette
A fashionable lady smokes under the starry sky - advertisement for A Batschari Imported Oriental Cigarettes. Date: 1924

Harry Price smoking a pipe
Harry Price(1881-1948), psychical researcher and author, who used his knowledge of stage magic to expose phoney mediums, poltergeists and other scams. Date: circa 1940s

Gentleman puffing on his pipe - Istanbul, Turkey. Date: 1873

Old Man from the Crimea, smoking a cigarette in a holder. Date: circa 1910

Office Boy burns his bridges and threatens to give notice
Office Boy burns his bridges (disobeying every commandment on his behaviour in sight) and threatens to give notice to his (rather surprised) Boss! Date: 1907

Advert for State Express Cigarettes 1912
An Inspiration - an advertisement for State Express Cigarettes, showing a very smart dapper young gent wooing his beloved

A waitress smokes as she sets tables in a Salford hall. Date: circa 1982

A man smokes as he waits outside toilets in Manchester Date: circa 1982

A young bellboy lights up his Gitanes Cigarette on this charming Trade Card designed by Rene Vincent. Date: 1934

A young American cowboy with his packet of Balto Cigarettes
A young American cowboy with his packet of Balto American Taste Cigarettes. Date: 1934

Myanmar - Sisters - Ngme Sein Ngwe Yi - BIG cigar
Myanmar - Sisters Ngme Sein Ngwe Yi - one of whom is smoking a big cheroot cigar! Date: circa 1907

Dutch Couple & Baby
A young Dutch father (or uncle!) smokes his pipe and sits on his smoking chair in his clogs watching over the baby in its wooden cot. Date: 1930s

Morning Coat & Cigarette
Anthony Drexel wears a morning coat, trousers with a chalk stripe & front crease, all round collar, tie & black & brown half boots. He smokes a cigarette from a holder. Date: 1910

Egyptian Lady Smokes
Egyptian woman stands holding a cigarette, her face turned away from the camera, wearing striped headscarf, necklace and metallic bangles on her wrists. Date: 1919

Smoking Painter
A rather well-dressed artist smokes from a long cigarette holder while she paints at her easel, palette in one hand, brush in the other Date: 1921

an Interesting Chapter
An interesting chapter A woman wearing a flouncy outfit smokes a cigarette while she reads. Date: circa 1900

Robin with a Pipe
A robin smokes a clay pipe - a very early Christmas card Date: circa 1860

Man smoking a clay pipe, c. 1800
Man sitting comfortably on a bench smoking a clay pipe, c.1800 Date: C.1800

Zeeuwsche man - The Netherlands - smoking Date: 1932

The Irish street-seller: oranges for sale in London, c. 1850
An Irish woman smokes a pipe and sells fruit from a wicker basket on the streets of London, c. 1850. Date: circa 1850

Selkup Man (North Siberian minority), in tradional winter clothes, smokes outside local shop in Krasnoselkup. early spring; near river Taz, North Tumen region, Siberia

Greys cigarettes for soldiers
Members of the V.A.D (Voluntary Aid Detachment) who undertook the distribution of 30, 000 cigarettes to soldiers who took part in the Lord Mayors Parade in November 1916

Abdullah cigarettes advertisement, WW1
Advertisement for Abdullah cigarettes during the First World War with a poem entitled, Cheero! reflecting the British Armys obsession with cigarettes or smokes

Distribution of cigarettes at the front, WW1
A battery commander distributing the contents of a parcel of cigarettes amongst his men at the Front at Christmas time. According to The Sphere

Army supply trucks, WW1
The driver of a First World War army supply truck takes a moment to rest and enjoy a cigarette. Accompanied by a quote from Tennyson, And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad. Date: 1916

Suffragette Dog with a Pipe and Spectacles. A large brown dog with spectacles and brass collar, smokes a pipe against the background of the Union Jack flag

When Women Vote Men Sewing. Domestic roles reversed when women vote marriage rules revised, husbands duties now include making their trousers out of wifes old skirts and minding the baby

Cigars de Joy
An advertisement for Cigars de Joy, marketed here as offering immediate and complete relief in cases of asthma, cough, bronchitis, hayfever and shortness of breath. Date: 1881

A shamisen player, lighting her pipe
A Japanese lady in traditional costume lays her shamisen(a musical instrument with three strings, also written samsin), to one side, so she can light her kiseru or pipe, aided by another woman

Match box with wind screen, World War One
A combined silver match box and wind screen, a novelty but nevertheless extremely useful to men at the front and available from Charles Packer and Co of Regent Street, London

Hugh Cecil Lowther - 5th Earl of Lonsdale
Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale (18571944) - English nobleman and sportsman. Date: 1926

Lovestruck American lad with the Stars and Stripes
A lovestruck young American lad smoking a cigarette and standing before the Star Spangled Banner, sends the following words to his lady love: Say kid

WWI - Italian Garibaldier Infantryman at the Forest of Argonne, January 1915. Date: 1915

Japanese Woman O-Koto-San has a smoke before bed
Japanese Woman O-Koto-San has a smoke and thinks of her soldier Lo, whilst her miad prepares her bed. Date: circa 1905

Three boys on a desert island captured by an indigenous man, who nails their packing case clothing to a long pole and carries them away midst weeping sore and wailing. Date: 1898

Three schoolboys on a desert island meet an indigenous man Date: 1898

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