Smoking Collection (#45)

Socialising at Beach
A fashionable group socialising on the beach in Trouville

Male Type Adam 1932
A well-dressed man lounges at a street corner somewhere in North Africa

Dapper Man / Dryden
A very dapper looking gentleman wearing a cape and smoking a cigarette in a holder

Dryden / Beach Blanket
A fashionable group at the seaside

A gathering of Cree Indians, c. 1870
Image showing a group of male Prairie Cree Indians smoking long pipes and talking together. The Cree are wearing fringed buckskin and feathers in their hair

Hotel Office in a frontier town, North America, 1880
Engraving showing the scene in a hotel in a frontier town, with Indian trophies, moccasins, penants, belts and a moose head on the wall

Dinner on an Australian Emigrant Ship, 1849
Engraving showing dinner taking place in the forecastle of an Australian emigrant ship, 1849. The forecastle is an elevated platform in the bows of the ship and can be seen, in this engraving

Young American Man, Boston, 1856
Engraving of a dapper young man, smoking a cheroot and reading the latest news, Boston, 1856. Young America was the name of a democatic movement started in the USA in the 1830 s

The Deck of the Refugee Ship North Britain, 1882
Engraving of the passengers on board the ship North Britain fleeing from Egypt, 1882. This engraving shows children playing cards and a lady in eastern dress smoking a hookah

American Indians: The Red River Territory. Little Fox, A Cre
Indian Chief smoking a long pipe wearing beads and feathered headdress

Pawnee Indians around a camp fire
A night scene showing Pawnee Indians seated in a cicle with the artist, Arthur Boyd Houghton, round a camp fire, smoking an Indian pipe

America, The Chinese in San Francisco. Opium smokers
An opium den, showing Chinese people under the influence of the drug, lying in bunks or on the floor, smoking long pipes. Date: 1880

The Smoking-Room of the Lusitania, the liner torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat on May 7th 1915, with the loss of 1200 lives

Emigrants enjoying fine weather on the deck of their ship, 1
Engraving showing emigrant passengers on deck amusing themselves; smoking, reading and looking at the ocean as they travel to Australia, 1887

American Indians. North American Indians holding council on
Four Indians round a camp fire wearing feathers and fringed trousers, smoking long thin pipes. Date: 1860

De Dion / Guth / Vfair 1899
DE DION French automobile pioneer

Chesterton / Van Fair 1912
GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON English journalist and writer

Goodbye Kiss at Station
A romantic farewell kiss for one passenger on the platform. The rest of the passengers, mostly smartly dressed women with suitcases, are getting into the smoking carriage

The Site of Pompeii
A view of the site of Pompeii in the 19th century, with tantalising pieces of archaeology poking through the ash, and Vesuvius smoking menacingly in the distance

A CARD SHARP / C. 1850
A card sharp tries to con two naive country folk at an inn; they are using a barrel as a playing surface

At the Club
Comic illustration by Lawson Wood showing a club waitress eavesdropping on the gossip of two cigar and pipe smoking club members (monkeys essentially)

Craven a Advertisement
Advert for Craven A cigarettes showing a glamorous brunette smoking, with the tagline " Will not affect your throat"

4-GUINEA SUIT 1939
Tailored-to-measure by Montague Burton craftsmen

Couple Smoking
A couple sneak off to a secluded spot for a cigarette

Turkeys in Poulterers
A fine display of turkeys hanging in a butchers shop at Smithfield, London, ready for Christmas dinners

British Sailor
A British sailor in a beret, smoking his pipe thoughtfully

Girl in the Job Centre
A young woman wearing a belted blouson jacket and smoking a cigarette, doesn t seem interested in looking at the jobs on offer in her local Job Centre

On the deck of a warship, Hands to Dance and Skylark, 1889
Engraving showing the deck of a Victorian warship, with the crew off duty, entitled Hands to Dance and Skylark. Sailors smoking, dancing and playing musical instruments all across the gun deck

Rubber : Smoking
Smoking the freshly gathered juice to make it plastic and easily handled, after which it is left to dry for four days

Smoking Fashions 1836
Green cravat, yellow waistcoat with Brandenbourg trim, red fringed sash, green checked trousers, red slippers, paisley dressing gown & long pipe. Brown cloak with cape

Boys Smoking / Liverpool
Boys smoking in a Liverpool street

Exotic Pipe 1845
Fashionable French gentleman leans against the stone urn of a chateau to have a chat with his friend and a smoke from his extemely long pipe

England / Polperro
A view of the Inner Harbour at low tide, at Polperro, Cornwall, England

Social / Cafe Rotonde 1924
People in the Cafe de la Rotonde, Montparnasse, Paris

A Smoking Party 1874
Several gentlemen partake in the joys of tobacco during a smoking party indoors

Non-Smokers Attacked
When Austria imposes a tax on tobacco at Milano, Italy, many residents give up smoking in protest : the Austrians then attack those who refuse to smoke !

Frogs as Humans (4 of 5)
A couple of happy frogs

Frogs Race on Snails
Three frogs mounted on snails race each other

Frogs as Humans (1 of 5)
A sick frog recovers to smoke his pipe again!

Tobacco Holder
A carved, polished wooden tobacco holder in the shape of a dog (possibly a bulldog)

Nashs Magazine
A sultry young woman in an exotic sombrero is the cover girl for this World War One issue which contains stories of German barbarities

Victorian Smokers
A lady and gentleman enjoy the cosy companionship of a shared cigarette. Quite shocking considering its about 1880

Recreations on board the Empress of Ireland, a game of cards
Recreations on board the ill-fated Empress of Ireland: a game of cards in the smoking room. The furnishings of the saloons resembled those of a luxurious club

Mameluke of Cairo
A Mameluke of Cairo, smoking a hookah, is waited on by a servant, who brings him coffee on a tray

Egyptian Water Carrier
An Egyptian water carrier offers refreshment to a ships captain of Alexandria, smoking a hookah

Harry Price Smoking
Psychical researcher and author, who used his knowledge of stage magic to expose phoney mediums, poltergeists and other scams

Girl in Trousers 1911
Blonde lady in a large Merry Widow style hat; high heels holds a pipe-smoking bulldog

Hunting in the Snow 1 / 2
ONE OF THE RIGHT SORT Who hunts because he likes it " Counfound this snow I shall never get a light; but the worst of it is it will put a stop to hunting for few days"

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