Subject: Opium / Material Type: Photographs - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: 1787.d.7, 1(18)
Title:: Opium-smoking in a restaurant. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a reclining figure smoking an opium pipe.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870-1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1787.d.7, 1(19)
Title:: A whiff of opium at home. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) 'This picture shows the method in which opium is smoked by the wealthier classes among the Chinese. The smoker here has leisure and money at his command, so that he is able to indulge freely in his use of the drug...'
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870-1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 310(266)
Title:: Opium smokers. Photographer: Gordon, Francis Walden
Scope & Content:: Glass stereogram, inscribed 'Stereogram Shan Tayok' on mount.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1920s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 667/3(49)
Title:: Opium poppies-Hamadan. Photographer: Parsons, Arthur Edward Broadbent
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Jul 1932
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/49(4784)
Title:: Non-photographic: Gouache by an Amritsar artist depicting the smoking of opium.
Scope & Content:: With descriptive notes attached. The paintings accompanied samples of the narcotics illustrated, and were made for display at an unidentified exhibition. See Mildred Archer, 'Company drawings in the India Office Library' (HMSO, London, 1972), p. 226, catalogue ref. 188 (iii).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870
Extent:: 1 item

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