Old Spinner, 1900’s

‘Old Spinner’ (vieille fileuse) postcard.  Bourbonnais, France  early 1900’s            

Hemp Trading Card, 1900

Hemp trading card made by the French chocolate company ‘Chocolat Poulain’ from their series entitled Useful Plants (Les plantes utiles),  France 1900     Industrial Useful Plants Hemp Plant of the family Ulmaceae, which is believed to be native to Read More …

Woman Eating Hemp, 18th Century

‘La Corderie: Femme Mangeant du Chanvre’ (The Ropeworks: Woman Eating Hemp),  by Jean Baptiste Huët (1745-1811)     oil on canvas     Watercolor with pen and ink       “O, she’s warm! If this be magic, let it Read More …

Catching up on some reading, breaks over

Hope everyone had a chance to catch up on some reading during my time off.  Roll one up and get that pipe packed, we’re just getting started, breaks over   ‘Flapper reading newspaper’, one in a collection of erotic indoor Read More …

Le Teilleur de Chanvre, 1910s

‘Le Teilleur de Chanvre’  (The Hemp Scutcher) postcard.  Bresse, France 1910’s        

Hemp Follows the Needle

Cover of ‘Games and songs of American children’ by William Newell in 1884 Hemp Follows the Needle Our culture with hemp is so intertwined within the human experience that to this day, we still teach hemp culture to our children Read More …

Job Papier, 1894

‘Papier à cigarettes’ advertisement for Job rolling papers by Georges Meunier in 1894    

The Hemp, 1889

The Hemp   Hemp with webbed leaf, Hemp is in bloom, In the air Pollen, like smoke, Corrugated above green strands, And, like a strong wine, his breath Gray heads in the plain. Hemp is ripe, Morning and evening We Read More …

Zig-Zag, 1901

‘The world’s best branded cigarette paper’ (Le meilleur papier à cigarettes premiere marque du monde)  advertisement for Zig-Zag by Gaspar Camps  1901    

Drinks at the Cafe, 1902

‘Les Boissons Le Café’ (Drinks at the cafe) French postcard, 1902         Colorized versions of the same postcard          

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