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Advertising signs on shops in Hartfield, East SussexAdvertising signs outside shops in Hartfield, East Sussex. Date: circa 1930s
Comic postcard, Little boy and shopkeeper. Only ten years old? I can t serve you with cigarettes! - All right, don t stand there nattering - find someone who can!! Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Boy smoking mothers cigarettes Date: circa 1918
Advert for Players cigarettes, 1926 Date: 1926
Advert for Old Gold Cigarettes, 1930 Date: 1930
Processing tobacco leaves, studio scene, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph
Man and woman of Catalonia dancing the fandango, 1818. A musician plays a lute behind them. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Vennings A Geographical Present being Descriptions of
Man and woman of the Molucco Isles (Maluku Islands), 1818. Melanesian people with shield, spear, quiver of arrows. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Vennings A Geographical Present
Man and woman of Goa, India, 1818. They wear headdresses with feathers, tunics and cloaks. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Vennings A Geographical Present being Descriptions of
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
Concubine (mekake) of a high-ranking man watching a dancerConcubine (mekake) of a high-ranking man with tobacco pipe watching a dancing girl accompanied by musicians on shamisen and blind koto harpist (koze)
Wife of the elite samurai class relaxingWife of the elite samurai class reading books, with other women writing with a pen, one looking at ukiyo-e prints, and one folding paper. Another woman delivers reams of paper and ink
Aristocratic women parading past a ?shop, TokyoAristocratic women parading passing a ?yojiya, a shop selling brushes and toothpicks, Tokyo, 18th century. Young maids carry a mirror
Skating, the Hard Frost and the Fire-plug. Apprentices and dandies ice skating on a frozen canal 82, woman with kettle at a frozen waterpump in a cold winter 83
Trades in Regency England: china painting, pin makingTrades people in Regency England. Artist painting a porcelain vase in a Worcester china factory 7, girl using a foot-driven anvil to add heads to pins in a pin-making factory in Gloucester 8
Adventures of the Lewis and Clarke ExpeditionCaptain Meriwether Lewis and William Clarke reaching the Pacific Ocean 46, Indian woman protecting her child from fire under a buffalo hide 47, and Clarke escaping from a river deluge 48
Man weaving cotton on a loom, Senegambia, 18th century. He sits with his legs in a pit, with the warp tied to a large rock, under a mat shade. A weaver. Tisserand negre
Regency gentleman losing control of his horseRegency gentleman losing his hat and control of his horse passing a gig on the wrong side (passengers side). How to Pass a Carriage
Uniform of a ships captain, French Navy, 1844Uniform of a ships captain, capitaine de vaisseau, French Navy, 1844. Handcoloured woodblock print by Pauquet after Louis from Eugene Paninis Marine, arsenaux, navires, equipages, navigation
Royal Naval officers riding pigs in saddles through the market in Gibraltar. They knock over market stalls and sellers. Moors, Spanish and Jewish, scattering goods and wares. Market day - Gibraltar
An unusual foot race during a horse-racing meetEnglish gentlemen gambling on an unusual foot race during a horse-racing meet on the Champs de Mars, Paris, 19th century. Stubbs the Yorkshireman is piggybacked on vulgar Cockney grocer John Jorrocks
Gentleman on an old nag and lady on a pony meet up during a fox hunt, 19th century. Rosa McDermott sidesaddle on her pony and Jack Bunting shake hands
Costumes of the peasants of Zurich, Switzerland, 18th century. Contadini Zurighesi. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Migliavacca from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient
Knight in robes of the Order of the Golden FleeceKnight in ceremonial robes of the Distinguished Order of the Golden Fleece and crosses and emblems of high chivalric orders. Toison d oro ed altri ordini cavallereschi
Bamboo pipeAdvertising image depicting a smokers bamboo pipe and a pot of tobacco. German. Date: circa 1925
Hypothetical female smoking party, May 1894Illustration of an all-female smoking party, captioned " what we are coming to: a ladies smoking party", in reference to the changing social standards for women in Britain. 1894
Cartoon by Henry Bunbury, The Smoking Club. Date: circa 1790s
Man and woman of Albania. Illustration from Francois Pouquevilles Travels through More, Albania and several other parts of the Ottoman Empire, 1805
Night-flowering tobacco, Nicotiana noctiflora. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by Edward Dalton Smith from Robert Sweets The British Flower Garden
Indian tobacco or puke weed, Lobelia inflata. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887
Scene in an American farmhouse on a winterScene in an American farmhouse on a November night, mid 19th century. Family members playing cards at a table, men smoking pipes, etc
Tatar musicians in a Crimean town square, mid 19th centuryTatar musicians playing fiddle and balalaika in a Crimean town square, men smoking pipes and drinking tea. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmanns Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1857
Tobacco plant, Nicotiana tabacum, Tabac. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr
Sticky tobacco, Nicotiana glutinosa. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l Europe
Muchicongo men and many wives outside a hut, Angola. The men drink and smoke cachimbo pipes, while the women pound corn to make the local drink of oualo, brush their hair, etc
Different types of hookah pipes of India: gargara, snake hookah, narikel, cheroot, narikel and gargara. Handcoloured copperplate drawn
The banquet held for Dodwell by the Bishop of Salona in Crisso, Greece. A man bowing before the bishop seated on a cushion, servants bring food to men seated at a round table
Costumes of city dwellers and farmers. Middle-class man in overcoat of sheepskin with half moons over a silk robe, farmers in jackets and trousers
Chinese hydraulic machines including waterwheels and waterpump driven by manpower. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrrarios Costumes Antique
Costumes of the natives of Dalagoa Bay, MozambiqueCostumes of the tattooed natives of Dalagoa Bay (Maputo Bay), Mozambique, in front of a village of circular huts. Man smoking tobacco with a curious hookah pipe made of bamboo and cow horn
Houses of the Nubians, early 19th century. Natives smoking pipes and sitting in the shade under palm trees. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Antonio Sasso from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient
Schizodactylus monstrosus and giant tobacco cricketSchizodactylus monstrosus cricket 1, and giant tobacco cricket, Brachytrupes membranaceus 2. Handcoloured lithograph from John O
Furnaces used for experiments and tobacco pipe manufactureFurnaces used by David Mushet for his experiments on iron and steel, and used for tobacco pipe manufacture. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by John Farey Jr
Chinese pedlar and tobacconist, Qing Dynasty. The pedlar wears a bamboo lattice shop with handkerchiefs, ribbons, purses, etc. The tobacconist has set up a street stall selling tobacco and snuff
Tartar lady walking on a terrace, Qing DynastyTartar lady with tobacco pipe walking on a terrace, Qing Dynasty. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin
Tartar woman and child, Qing Dynasty China. She wears an embroidered silk robe and smokes a tobacco pipe, while the child pulls a toy cart
Langsdorffs tobacco, Nicotiana langsdorffii. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a drawing by John Curtis for Samuel Curtis continuation of William Curtis Botanical Magazine, London
Virginian and wild tobaccoVirginian or common tobacco, Nicotiana tabacum 1, and wild or sacred tobacco, Nicotiana rustica 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder