Days Gone By

Jul 5 2012
7:20 pm

Mark Twain relaxing on a porch in New Hampshire, 1905.

Source: New York Times photo archive

Posted 11 months ago
#1900s #mark twain #samuel clemens #vintage #portrait #smoking #porch-sitting #history #new hampshire #new england #USA #writer

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Jul 3 2012
7:33 am

Antoin Sevruguin, Two Ladies and a Child Reposing in the Harem, ca. 1899.

ource: Brooklyn Museum

Posted 11 months ago
#1890s #19th century #victorians #victorian #vintage #history #harem #antoin sevruguin #middle east #hookah #smoking #children #odalisque

16 notes

Jun 27 2012
10:25 pm

John Huston, ca. 1946.

Posted 11 months ago
#1940s #vintage #portrait #actor #john huston #harts #smoking

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Jun 26 2012
1:53 am

George Charles Beresford, Wyndham Lewis, 1913.

Posted 11 months ago
#1910s #vintage #portrati #smoking #cigarette #george charles beresford #wyndham lewis

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Jun 24 2012
1:54 pm

Actress Beverly Aadland, ca. 1960.

Posted 11 months ago
#1960s #vintage #portrait #actress #beverly aadland #smoking #cigarette #fabulous

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Jun 23 2012
6:32 pm

Russian poet and playwright Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1914.

Posted 12 months ago
#1910s #vintage #portrait #history #smoking #cigarette #top hat #hats #russia #russian history #vladimir mayakovsky

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Jun 23 2012
6:23 am

Archibald Little, Two men reclining on couches at an opium house in China, 1902.

Posted 12 months ago
#1900s #opium #opium den #archibald little #vintage #smoking #china #chinese history #history

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Jun 22 2012
11:28 pm

Opium den in a Chinese lodging house in San Francisco, California, ca. 1890.

Source: Waters’ Nickel series, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Posted 12 months ago
#1890s #19th century #victorians #victorian #vintage #history #opium #opium den #smoking #san francisco #california #chinese #chinese-american #asian-american #northern california

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Jun 21 2012
10:21 pm

A woman smoking hookah, Iran, ca. 1900.

Posted 12 months ago
#1900s #vintage #portrait #history #victorians #victorian #hookah #smoking #middle east #iran #persia

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Jun 21 2012
4:33 am

A Bedouin man smoking hookah at a cafe, Deir ez-Zor, Syria, 1920s.

Posted 12 months ago
#1920s #bedouin #hookah #shisha #syria #middle east #vintage #portrait #history #smoking

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