Smoking Collection (#51)

Digging for Victory in England during World War Two - or in this case, Forking for Victory. Self-sufficiency and growing your own vegetables was encouraged

Old Timer Fishes 1892
An unhurried old man sits on the bank, pipe in mouth & rod in hand, for a spot of fishing. His box of tackle can just be seen by his side

Napoleon III
LOUIS NAPOLEON III Emperor of the French, sitting, smoking a pipe

MATCHLOCK
Matchlock with smoking wick

British Staff Officer
A staff officer from G.H.Q. in a dug-out, studying details before the opening of the British offensive

Man Smoking 1930
A man in a flat cap smokes a cigarette

Woman Smoking 1930
A young woman smokes a Wills Gold Flake cigarette

Male Type Evening Dress
An elegant gentleman in top hat smoking a cigarette

Littlewoods Pools
A man in a checked jacket sits in his armchair beside the fireplace, smoking his pipe, perusing the Littlewoods Pools

Lightning Strikes House
View of a farm house at Rasling End, near Hitchin in Hertforshire which was struck by lightning which has caused damage to the roof & windows

Dining on Oysters
An insolent young man smoking a cigar, puts on his gloves as he makes a parting comment to an affronted older gentleman who is stopped in the act of smashing open an oyster

Indian and Hookah
An Indian nobleman talks with a friend while he smokes his hookah, accompanied by music from two female performers : another servant holds a flaming torch to light it

Smaking Lady 1926
A woman of 1926 smokes her cigarette elegantly

Smoking Dress
Smoking du soir created by Anna of the Champs Elysees. A gentleman gallantly helps her out of her cape

Showgirl / Spanish Theme
Unnamed Paris showgirl in a Spanish or possibly South American themed show

Legrand / Showgirl
Mademoiselle Lucienne Legrand, in the film Mon Cure chez les Riches. She sits on a tall stall, smoking a cigarette and wearing a pink one piece, pearls, earings and hat

Rosepetal Fag-Ends 2
Cigarettes Primerose from the Regie Francaise - a delicate white covering with a red band envelops the blond, voluptuous substance that gives birth to dreams - and lung cancer

Three Women in Casual
Three women in crepe satin lingerie by Premet (lace by Racine) chat casually of this and that

Three Smokers 1926
Three elegant ladies smoke, while they admire their dresses by Doucet, Anna and Bernard

Jean Bart Smokes
The French admiral Jean Bart depicted smoking a long clay pipe

Fortune Linings 1935
Advertisement for lining material

Equality / Blue Stocking
Valentines day at Girton: satire on the thinking woman

Equality / Eve and Adam
Eve Adamised

Blue Stocking / 1881
An Italian blue-stocking

London Club / 1864
A group of gentlemen at the bay window of their London club

Cigarettes in Ashtray
A close-up photograph of an ashtray full of cigarette butts, with a government health warning, torn from a cigarette packet, in the centre

Napoleon III & Family
LOUIS NAPOLEON III with his wife and son at Camden Place, Chislehurst in 1871

Beehive on a Gatepost
A bee keeper in a suit smokes straggling bees back into their hive with the aid of a pair of small smoking bellows

Racial / Falling over Bank
Blood Indian, Waterton Lake National Park, Alberta, Canada, smoking a pipe in his tepee

Mother Carries Daughter
Mother carries her daughter on her back along a path towards a house with a smoking chimney

Permutit Water Softener
Advertisement for Permutit water softener

Events / Africa / Dahomey
The French tricouleur is borne proudly into the smoking city of Abomey, Dahomey - Honneur aux braves soldats ! Vive la France ! Date: 1892

Ww1 / 1916 / German Trench
German soldiers read letters in their dug-out

Cigar Connoisseur
English gentleman sets his pipe on one side as he contemplates the pleasures offered on a cigar chart

Marlborough Club 1900
The Smoking Room

Bismarck / Rohling / Page 32
During treaty negotiations, he gives Favre his views on cigars

Bismarck / Rohling / Page 6
Bismarck is a student at Gottingen University

Water Babies / Fairies
Tom swims in the river accompanied by fairies, past the great town with its wharfs, mills & tall smoking chimneys

Industrial Landscape
Ironworks at Coalbrookdale, Shropshire

Young Things at Beach
Young men and women smoking and enjoying themselves on the beach

Smoke Dreams C1910
Smoke dreams

Wilhelm II 1894
WILHELM II GERMAN ROYALTY Emperor of Germany shown in military uniform and smoking a cigarette

Ulyssess Grant / Vanity F
ULYSSESs GRANT American Civil War General, and later President, relaxing with a cigar

17th Century Family
Family alarmed by sight of father smoking a pipe

Futuristic invention for the lazy person
A futuristic invention for the lazy person -- no need to leave your seat when you need a drink, in the automatic home of the future

Copper works in Cornwall, with smoking chimneys
Copper works in Cornwall, with many smoking chimneys

Steamer leaving Folkestone Harbour for Boulogne
The Boulogne steamer leaving Folkestone Harbour

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