Vintage Drugs, Drug Stores, and Narcotics

 

1979 header Drug paraphernalia, Phoenix House. I got Jill Jonnes' history at a library sale. Very good. Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams: A History of America's Romance with Illegal Drugs.

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c1871. [Drug poster]

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1900. The Age of Drugs.

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1920-21. Afflects [Affleck's] Drug Store

https://www.loc.gov/item/2016823747/

c1923. The drug clerk. Pharmacist mixing medicine with mortar and pestle.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2002712838/

1913. G.W. Armstrong drug store

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1943. Stony Brook, Long Island. Drug store interior

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1895-1910. [S.C. Cocke drugs, Fort Wayne, Ind.]

https://www.loc.gov/item/2016812119/

1946. Star Drug, business on Kingsbridge Rd., Bronx, New York. Exterior

https://www.loc.gov/item/2018745211/

1843. 

Narcotic poisons / G.E. Madeley, lithog., Wellington St[ree]t, Strand.

Summary

Illustration shows plants classified as narcotic poisons, including Deadly Nightshade, Birthwort, White Poppy, Woody Nightshare, Tobacco, Thorn Apple, Water Hemlock, Foxglove, Strong Scented Lettuce, Hemlock, Herb Paris, and Henbane; also descriptions of plants.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2014647589/

1936. 

John W. McDonald, narcotic agent

https://www.loc.gov/item/2016878364/

c1920. Destroying narcotics, Bureau Internal Rev.

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c1909. [Two Chinese men, on narcotics in opium den]

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1963. Narcotics agents with over 400 lbs. of marijuana / World Telegram & Sun photo by Ed Ford.

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c1906. He took his hypodermic syringe out of its case and dropped it among the coals.

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1965. [Two Hunter College students covering their faces with books, at police headquarters after they were picked up on narcotics] / World Telegram & Sun photo by Herman Hiller.

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1972. Amorphia : the cannabis cooperative

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1919-20. Treasury, Internal Revenue Dept., [Washington, D.C.]; opium smokers outfit

https://www.loc.gov/item/2016851387/

Egyptian characters, etc. Gathering opium from seed pods of the poppy

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1904. The cultivation of the opium poppy, a thriving industry of Egypt

https://www.loc.gov/item/2019637464/

1865-72. Miesta obshchestvennykh sborishch. Kuril'shchik opiuma

https://www.loc.gov/item/2002710091/

c1904. 

When bachelor dens cast over waking hours a loneliness so deep

Summary

Young man with opium pipe reclining on a sofa covered with furs.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2005686511/

1918. Mural decorations showing the natural growth of drugs and their discoverers. Morphine, by Ludwig; Strychnine, by Pelletier and Caventou

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