Museum Exhibits

This section of the site houses the collection of exhibits housed by The Museum Of Drugs Paraphernalia And Related Antiquities. Please click on the images below to access the relevent museum archives and to explore the history behind the exibits.

Opium Pipe - Quing Dynasty, 19th Century

Cecilia 'Cissie' Loftus- Postcard

Henry Giordano, Head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics 1950s

Quing Dynasty Opium Lamp 19th Century

The Druggists Circular Early 1900s

Legion Magazine, Interview with Henry Giordano, Head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics 1964

Opium Jar 19th Century

Opium Bottle - Missouri Early 1900s

Opium Cartoon Postcard

Chinese Decorative Opium Jar 19th Century

Opium Postcard, Early 20th Century

Postcard of Russian Man Smoking 1959

Mrs Winslow's Soothing Cough Syrup - Glass Bottle 19th Century

1913 Police Bust Card

Peter Fonda - Photograph following appearance on marijuana possession charges 1966

Newsweek 27th June 1966

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - The Fight on the Peiho River 1860

Opium Smuggler 1914

Harpers Weekly September 4th 1880

Billie Carleton - The Daily Sketch 1919

The Velvet Underground Gig 1968

Prescription for Cannabis 1887

Scientific American1922

Heroin detection line 1971

Bert Maucher, 26th Feb 1890, letter requesting a supply of morphine

Punch Magazine 1922

J.D Maucher M.D Druggist 1890 letters relating to the addiction of a family member to morphine

The Menace Of Morphine, Heroin And Cocaine 1923

Kay's Coaculine 1890

Confessions of An Englis Opium Eater 1930 Edition

The Chinese in New York

The British Women's Temperance Association 1930s

Harper's New Weekly - A Hashish-House In New York

Click Photo Parade 1938

Janet Achurch Charington

Meccano Morphine Tin 1940s

Remedies and Cures - Advertisements

Lady Drinking Absinthe - Picasso print from 1946

Private Collections and Patrons Of

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Related Antiquities

The Yeats Collection 2009

Exhibit 1 - Laudanum Bottle

The Yeats Collection 2009

Exhibit 2 - Bateman's Drops Opium Bottle

The Hutchinson Collection 2008

Exhibits 1-5

The Hutchinson Collection 2008

Exhibit 6

The Hutchinson Collection 2008

Exhibit 7

The Hutchinson Collection 2011

Exhibit 8