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‘5.5 tons of marijuana in a Hertz truck, loaded off two vessels. The larger boat is the Andiamo, the smaller one the Mercy Wiggins AKA the Ruth Ann’. San Francisco, California May 5, 1971 Walter Pardaen with the life Read More …
Love Puff, San Francisco, California 1968
‘Estrazione della canapa dal macero’ (Extracting Hemp from the Retting Pit) by Giovan Francesco Barbieri known as ‘Il Guercino’ 1615
‘English women in Constantinople’ cabinet card photographed by Pascal Sébah. Istanbul, Turkey 1873
Marijuana discovered hidden within a trucks cargo, early 1980’s
‘Two Harvard students, one seated behind a desk and one lying in a hammock’, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts between 1888-90 The ‘one seated behind a desk’ puffing his pipe Of course no proper stoner Read More …
‘Men shocking, or standing and binding large bundles of hemp’ photographed by Rue B. Archibald. Mercer county, Kentucky between 1900-04
‘Pipe Maker’, Japan 1880’s
‘Cordai’ (Rope Maker) women prepare hemp in the field using hand tools, Cremona, Italy 1930
‘Noon at Hamburg Place’ postcard, Lexington, Kentucky early 1900’s