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Pipe Smoking Images From Life…

Life Magazine that is. I don’t know if you’ve noticed it, but Google has entered recently into arrangement with Life Magazine to make their picture archives available online. Here are some of the images that you’ll find when doing a search for “pipe”:

Man holding huge pipe as can of tobacco is being put into it during pipe smoking contest. March 1959 by Yale Joel.  Man smoking a pipe during pipe smoking contest. March 1959 by Yale Joel.  Closeup of pipe cleaners. 1935 by Seymour Lincoln  Capt. William Cowart of Cowart, VA, an aide to Gen. Ira Eaker, Head of 8th Bomber Command Airmen, smoking corn cobb pipe w. his dog "Winston", a gift fr. the airmen of the RAF, at HQ in southern England. 1942 by Margaret Bourke-White.  Polish national Janina Wiczewska smoking a pipe following her release from Japanese captivity at Santo Tomas University. 1945 by Carl Mydans  An African-American woman smoking a pipe, her head is wrapped in a bandana & she is wearing a hat. 1938 by Alfred Eisenstaedt.  Gen. Douglas MacArthur smoking corncob pipe during Philippines action, WWII. 1945 by Carl Mydans  Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) writing w. pipe in mouth. 1930 by unknown.  Novelist William Faulkner w. pipe. 1962 by Carl Mydans  Artist painter-photographer Man Ray holding up his "Lips" print, winking at camera and smoking a pipe in his home. 1961 by Loomis Dean  Cellist Pablo Casals smoking his pipe at his home in Prades. 1966 by Gjon Mili  A worker making a corn cob pipe in Washington, MO. 1945 by Wallace Kirkland 

 

This is a great insight into how common pipe smoking was in the days past. You’ll find everything from portraits of the famous to those not-so-much.

posted on Thursday, December 04, 2008 10:46 PM | Filed Under [ Pipes ]

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