Love Song

  ‘Vigil Bressane’ (Veillée Bressane) postcard.   Bourg-en-Bresse, France 1905   Love Song ‘Konopa konopa Koho rada vidímn’ (Hemp Hemp – To One Who I Like To See) is an ancient Slovak song steeped in the culture of hemp.  It Read More …

Ouled Nail Couple, 1905

A young Ouled Nail couple, photographed by Rudolf Franz Lehnert. Tunisia / Algeria 1905      

Teasing, 19th century

‘Teasing the maid in the kitchen’ by Adrianus van Doorn 19th century    

Fernande, 1917

Fernande Barrey, french postcard labeled ‘JA Serie 67’ photographed by Jean Agélou.  France between 1910-17      

The Hemp Brakers, 1906

‘The Hemp Brakers’ (les Broyeuses de Chanvre) postcard.  Argent-sur-Sauldre, France taken sometime before 1906             In a reproduction of the original postcard and photograph produced in 1910, the image is the same except for the Read More …

Liamba Leaf, 1890

Illustration of a ‘Liamba Leaf’ aka Wild Hemp (cannabis) from the book  ‘Adventures in the great forest of equatorial Africa and the country of the dwarfs’ by Du Chaillu & Paul Belloni in 1890     Liamba Leaf “I found Read More …

Family of Kahlil Sarkees, 1893

‘Family of Kahlil sarkees’ enjoy a water pipe at Midway.  Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition, Illinois 1893    

Catching Square Grouper, 1987

‘Marijuana Confiscation’,  Miami, Florida 1987        

L ‘odalisque, 1871

‘L ‘odalisque’ by  Jean Baptiste Camille Corot 1871/1873  

Effects of Sulfate of Ammonia on Hemp, 1890’s

‘Effects of sulfate of ammonia on hemp’ postcard,   Haut Éclair, France 1890’s     Hemp plants without ammonia sulfate on the left, yield 12 hundredweight per hectare, with ammonia sulfate on the right, yield 15 hundredweight per hectare.   Read More …

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