Woman Sitting at Spinning Wheel, 1890

‘Woman sitting at spinning wheel inside Curman Villa’ cyanotype.   Lysekil, Sweden 1890        

The Sleeping Girls, 1890

‘The Sleeping Girls in Japanese Bed’,  a popular geisha pose with kiseru pipe.  Japan 1890      

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 …

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 …