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‘The Cultivation of hemp’ (La Culture De Chanvre), photographed by F. Chapeau in Behuard, France photographed sometime between 1911-1955, postcard published late 50’s If you look real close you can just make out who I’m guessing to be his wife Read More …
‘Hindu smoking a pipe’ (Hindou fumant a la pipe), WW1 postcard. Marseille, France 1914
Hemp stacked and retting on the banks of the Loire River, postcard from Ingrandes, France 1910
‘Hemp workers’ engraving created by Lallemand and Levy, published in the ‘L’Illustration, journal universel’, Paris, France 1860
‘Weighing up Hemp at Close of Day’s work, Forgarty’s farm’, Kentucky 1906-7
Men use a horse-drawn reaper or hemp harvester to harvest hemp in a field. The hemp was used to produce binder twine. Wisconsin 1912
Rattlin The Reefer Now we can look at this history two ways… One, the owner of this thoroughbred was a huge Edward Howard fan (a somewhat obscure writer of ‘Rattlin the Reefer’ in 1836) or Two, in 1929 with the Read More …
“Sallie Gardner at Gallop” by Eadward Muybridge in 1878. Consists of 24 photographs in a fast-motion series “Pick-me-ups” for tired animals In 1892 comes this little gem of an article describing how tired animals are energized with cannabis. Interesting they Read More …