Two women and a man smoking in an opium den, late 19th century. An opium den was an establishment in which opium was sold and smoked. Opium dens were prevalent in many parts of the world in the 19th century, most notably China, Southeast Asia, North America, and France.

2018年5月4日 · Smartly dressed opium smokers lounge around in an opium den in New York in 1925 as the drug craze swept the country. Four well-to-do white women lie around a Chinese man, all clearly intoxicated, in New York in 1926.

Two women and a man smoking in an opium den in Chinatown, San Francisco, circa 1890. Reclining on bunk beds while sucking on opium pipes, these haunting photos provide a rare glimpse into life in America’s 19th century opium dens that …

"White Women in Opium Den, Chinatown S.F.," one of the many photographs I. W. Taber produced for tourist consumption, depicted two white women—one smoking, the other asleep or unconscious—in the company of a leering Asian man.

2022年11月8日 · When Dorian Gray is at the opium den, a woman approaches and calls him "Prince Charming", prompting the pursuit and then confrontation with James Vane. After being deceived into letting Dorian escape, James talks to that woman again, who reveals Dorian's ageless spell and claims "it's been nigh eighteen years" since he made her become ...

2021年10月17日 · Unlike the crack epidemic of the 1980s or the resurgence of heroin in the following decade, opium dens were commonly frequented by both men and women from the upper echelons of America's society. It was not at all unusual to see upper and middle-class citizens stop by a den for a session of euphoric numbness and calm.

2017年6月28日 · Reclining on bunk beds while sucking on opium pipes, these haunting photos provide a rare glimpse into life in America's 19th century opium dens that prompted the country's first crackdown on...

2023年7月30日 · A lot of that was based on the fact that these opium dens were visited by a wide variety of people, and that group included a fair few young women. And so, in the process of painting an extremely negative picture of the dens — and those who operated them — observers speaking from high positions of authority claimed that the women were being ...

The persons found Inside were Jim Jacobs, an itinerant musician [why am I not surprised they found a nomadic musician?], and Maude Owens, a woman of the half-world of Rochester. All three were placed under arrest and will be taken to Twin Bridges for trial today.

One summer evening near the turn of the nineteenth century, the painter Xavier Martinez, a Mexican by birth but living in the United States, decided to visit one of the few remaining opium dens in San Francisco's Chinatown. Martinez was well acquainted with the Chinese quarter, his studio a stone's throw away and his favorite.