Shocks in a Field, undated

‘Cut hemp stalks gathered in shocks in a field’  Brandon, Wisconsin undated    

Barrack Bag Deposit, 1958

‘Marijuana is weighed and checked by Jim Farris, left, Sheriff Bob Turner and O.E. Higginbotham. Recovered after local farmer called deputies to investigate a army barracks bag deposited by two men in his fields four miles north of Oklahoma City.’  Read More …

Men Shocking Hemp, 1900

‘Men shocking, or standing and binding large bundles of hemp’ photographed by Rue B. Archibald.  Mercer county, Kentucky between 1900-04      

Cordai, 1930

‘Cordai’ (Rope Maker) women prepare hemp in the field using hand tools,  Cremona, Italy 1930        

Japanese Hemp Experiment, 1901

Experimental field of Japanese hemp grown at the University of Kentucky Agricultural Experimental Station, photo by Louis Edward Nollau (glass plate negative).  Lexington, Kentucky 1901      

Hiding in the Hemp, 1912

‘A man wearing a suit and a straw hat standing among tall stalks of hemp in a field’.  Wisconsin, 1912      

Easter in Full Swing

“So high, the highest Hemp” -‘Big Hemp’ Slavic Easter song   Family around the swing, 1890’s     Easter in Full Swing Across the world families wake Easter morning to hunt for eggs with a huge meal to follow, sliding Read More …

Hemp Plots, 1915

“Hemp plots”, at a Agricultural Experiment Station grown by the College of Agriculture under the University of Kentucky August 19, 1915    

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