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Hemp

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Images about Hemp

3 images from works
  • Cannabis Sativa (Hemp)
  • Textiles: a beating machine for flax and hemp. Engraving.
  • Swaziland: two young men seated, one of them smoking hemp (cannabis) through a pipe made with a horn. Photograph.

Works from the collections

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    The praise of hemp-seed : With the voyage of Mr. Roger Bird and the writer hereof in a boat of brown-paper, from London to Quinborough in Kent. As also, a farewell to the matchlesse deceased Mr. Thomas Coriat. Concluding with the commendations of the famous riuer of Thames. By Iohn Taylor. The contents of the booke are in the next leafe before the preamble. The profits arising by hempseed are cloathing, food, fishing, shipping, pleasure, profit, iustice, whipping.

    Taylor, John, 1580-1653 | Date: 1623
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    Hemp for victory : history and qualities of the world's most useful plant / editors and senior authors: Kenyon Gibson, Nick Mackintosh and Cindy Mackintosh ; foreword by Woody Harrelson ; contributing authors: John Quincy Adams [and others].

    Gibson, Kenyon. | Date: 2006
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    Cannabis Sativa (Hemp)

    Rowan McOnegal
    • Pictures

    Swaziland: two young men seated, one of them smoking hemp (cannabis) through a pipe made with a horn. Photograph.

    | Date: [1900?] | Reference: 663205i
    • Books

    HEMP : lifeline to the future : the unexpected answer for our environmental and economic recovery / by Chris Conrad.

    Conrad, Chris | Date: 1993
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