22.00 USD
Smoking Family, Vintage RPPC, circa 1905/10
Zounds! Practically everyone in this image appears to be holding a cigarette! This may well have been an intentionally staged image, in the same way people will form a conga line to pose for a photo, or do any number of silly things, but this boy seems very comfortable with his cigarette, so perhaps not. The fact is, during that time, there were plenty of physicians who extolled the health benefits of tobacco smoking, and France was a country whose people seemed to embrace the Virginia leaf with a passion. In either case, a marvelously evocative image.
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