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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Mercer Hemp, 1900
“Two men wearing overalls cut and bundle hemp, while a man in a suit looks on” Mercer County, Kentucky 1900-1904
Stacks of Hemp, 1898
‘Stacks of hemp stalks in a hemp field’ Kentucky, 1898
Hemp Hunt, 1904
Four men dove hunting with shotguns in a hemp field. Mercer County, Kentucky – pre1904 A man aims his shotgun while hunting doves in a hemp field. The field has been cut and the hemp bundled. Mercer Read More …
Chicago World’s Fair, 1893
“If it comes to please then it will be through the process similar to the taste for opium or hashish.” – observations of a Worlds Fair visitor in 1893 Crowd waiting for the opening of the gates at the Read More …
Our Home Hasheesh Crop, 1926
Hemp plant workers, Mapleton, Minnesota 1943 Our Home Hasheesh Crop The hemp plant, the source of the drug hasheesh, is one of the commonest weeds of the country; but there is little danger that it will seriously promote the drug Read More …
Fayette County, 1942
Fayette County, Kentucky 1942
Machine for beating out hemp seed, 1943
“Machine for beating out hemp seed” Printed in the Extension Circular No. 400 published by the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station in 1943
Sower of the Hemp, 1900
“…before the red of apple buds become a sign in the low orchards, or the high song of the thrush is pouring forth far away at wet pale-green sunsets, the sower, the earliest sower of the hemp, goes forth into Read More …
“Spinning Machine”, 1905
Spinning Machine If you follow my blog, you will find I am in love with the beauty of early photographs of spinning wheels. Something about the sophisticated elegance of simplicity, Love. Woman Spinning Hemp on “Spinning Machine” in Kentucky Read More …