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Subject Water Pipes (smoking)

21. Photo 1152(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1152(20)
Title:
Egyptian family. Photographer: Arnoux, Hippolyte
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Studio group, posed against a painted backdrop, of a man (smoking a hookah) seated with three veiled women and two children. Photograph unsigned, but probably by Arnoux.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

22. Photo 1166/1(157)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1166/1(157)
Title:
Mahomedan Kashmiri spinning. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Snapshot view showing a woman seated on the ground with her spinning wheel, her child beside her and a man on the right with a water pipe. Probably photographed at or near Srinagar.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1913
Extent:
1 item

23. Photo 1166/2(46)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1166/2(46)
Title:
Afghans. Photographer: Bremner, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered 'Bremner - 61' in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group portrait of five Afghan men, posed with a donkey in front of a mud house. The figure on the left is seated on a charpoy, smoking a water pipe. Almost certainly photographed in Pak...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

24. Photo 1188(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1188(20)
Title:
Where Shanghai's wealthy natives pass the time—Chinese tea house, China. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:
Interior view of a tea house, furnished with low tables with marble tops, square stools, glass lanterns, and mirrors. Inside, there are several men sitting around the tables. On the table in centre are two water-pipes.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

25. Photo 1224/1(29)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/1(29)
Title:
[An Arab woman.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Full-length studio portrait of an Arab woman in Ottoman dress, seated with a hookah. Photograph unsigned, possibly by Arnoux.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

26. Photo 1224/2(44)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/2(44)
Title:
Rajpoots. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Shepherd & Robertson, Photo: 1120 in the negative. Three sword bearing men kneeling, holding swords. On the left stands a bearer holding a staff; with a large hookah in the foreground. Also, a barely legible inscription on the negative reads (?)'Pi611'.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

27. Photo 1224/2(107)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/2(107)
Title:
Jat Zamindars [Delhi]. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered 1116 Shepherd & Robertson in the negative. Full-length portrait of four men, two seated on a charpoy (one holding a hookah), two standing on the right.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

28. Photo 1224/2(143)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/2(143)
Title:
Kashmir nautch girls. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Numbered 937 in the negative. Kashmir was visited by the compiler of this album between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Portrait of three Kashmiri women, seated on a rug, the figure on the left smoking a water pipe. Listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue as 'Group of three Kashmir Girls.'
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1863-1865
Extent:
1 item

29. Photo 1224/2(152)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/2(152)
Title:
Kashmir nautch girl. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Kashmir was visited by the compiler of this album between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Circular image; full-length portrait of a woman reclining on cushions in the open air, a water pipe (partly cropped out of image) on the right.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

30. Photo 1224/2(153)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/2(153)
Title:
Kashmir nautch girl. Photographer: Frith's Series
Scope & Content:
Frith's Series blindstamp. Kashmir was visited by the compiler of this album between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Full-length standing studio portrait of a young woman, a water pipe standing beside her.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item