Boy Smoking Water Pipe, 1930
Boy smoking water pipe postcard, Tripoli, Libya 1930
Month: September 2018
Scene of the Desert Life, 1901
‘Scene of the Desert Life: Bedouin smoking a chibouk pipe resting beside his camel’, Postcard. Egypt 1901
Shoo Fly Don’t Bother Me
Daruma, the founder of Zen Buddhism, his arms are raised above his head and he is holding a fly whisk used during meditation. He is either yelling or laughing. Copper Kozuka by Toshiyuki 1800’s Shoo Fly Don’t Bother Read More …
Tikapur Artwork Smoke Sesh, 1950
Picasso like Figures, Bordered by Sacred Serpents, Adorn a Tharu Mud Wall in Tikapur These shy people, who ran at first sight of the photographer, invited him into their home after he let them look through his camera’s view finder. Read More …
The Weed Card, 1910
‘Fredric Weed’, 2nd baseman for the Spokane Team (Pacific Coast League), 1910 Obak tobacco baseball card
Yale Smoking Contest, 1959
‘Smoking Contest’ held at Yale University in 1959 Honorable mention to the guy in the middle who showed up with the homemade glass jug hookah!
Mr. Burroughs in Morocco, 1892
‘Cafe with a view’, Tangiers, Morocco 1940 Mr. Burroughs in Morocco He smokes hashish, has visions, and sets out to the English chemist in quest of an antidote. Mr. Burroughs’s peregrinations recently brought him to the city Read More …
Playing Knucklebones, 1898
‘Playing Knucklebones’, painting by Paul Alexander Alfred Leroy 1898
Suitcase Full of Smuggled Marijuana, 1940’s
‘Detective Lieutenants R.S. Hamilton, E.J. Henry, and E.C. Biffle with suspect Adolfo Campos and a suitcase full of smuggled marijuana’, Los Angeles, California – Early 1940’s
Sicily’s Cannabis Cathedral, 1174
“You have not brought any kaneh for me, or lavished on me the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins and wearied me with your offenses.” – Isaiah 43:23-24, God scolding the Israelite’s for not Read More …