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Spinning Machine If you follow my blog, you will find I am in love with the beauty of early photographs of spinning wheels. Something about the sophisticated elegance of simplicity, Love. Woman Spinning Hemp on “Spinning Machine” in Kentucky Read More …
It was common for themed photo shoots at the advent of photography. The size of this hookah however is not… Orientalist cabinet card from AKRON, OHIO c.1880
“My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease, Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, Th’ uncertain sickly appetite to please.” – William Shakespeare, sonnet 147 Lehnert & Landrock – Tunisian Read More …
‘The spontaneous growth of bhang in the public gardens’, Amritsar, India April 23, 1894 Photograph from the British ‘Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1894-1895’
Smoking a pipe, Tepelena, Albania, 1923
“Albert and Baltazar Negrite, aged 9 and 10, are shown with George Contreras, Detective Chief of the District Attorney’s Office. Boys are wearing new clothes purchase for them after Contreras had found them in destitute circumstance upon investigating charges that Read More …
Lyster H. Dewey, with a scoop devised for taking up /”threshing” hemp seed from individual selections beaten out on canvas, Office, November 1929 Picture of Lyster Dewey and his threshing hemp technique from his personal journal found at a Read More …
When asked how much hemp used to grow in this region one farmer responded by saying, “Do you see these rice fields?” pointing to the vast checkerboard of rice fields we’d been cutting and bundling, “before the war, we didn’t Read More …
Cannabis Playdate In 1936, this innocent image was as American as it gets, Apple Pie. A little girl with her bow and arrow playing in front of the families cannabis plants… In less then 2 years, descending federal Read More …
‘Man in Richard Nixon mask smokes a joint after taking his pants off’. -Marijuana Smoke-In and March from Central Park to Washington Square. May 30, 1974 And then you realize… “Wait, why did he take off his pants?”