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Randolph Scott

“ A woman is only a woman but a good cigar can be shredded for pipe tobacco. “

Author P. G. Wodehouse

in 1933 and the last one is from 1975, one week before his death.

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Walter Cronkite as a student at the University of Texas in Austin.

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Ernest Shackleton

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Resident of Plain City, Ohio

Photo: Ben Shahn, from the book documenting his WPA photography Ben Shahn's American Scene (Photographs 1938)

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Not ordinarily the type content I would post but I love this image of the men smoking in front of their text. For some it may have been their last smoke.

The caption reads: Pipes, such as this meerschaum model belonging to Stephen H. Leonard of the 3rd Massachusettes Volunteer Calvary, were among the most treasured luxurie, as evidenced by the photo of Gerald Fitz-John Porter’s staff bivouacked during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign. “most of the soldiers with whom I was thrown … smoked tobacco as a constant habit”, one Alambama infantryman recalled. “In those days I estemmed such indulgence next to necessity, and an inexpressible delight”.

From: Eye Witness to the Civil War

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