Woman Smoking Opium, Hanoi - French Indochina circa 1915 - Photo by Léon Busy

Cô gái người Hoa hút thuốc phiện, Hà Nội 1915

(source: Museé d'Albert Kahn) -

A woman indulges in opium utilizing a lavish gilt opium-smoking layout amidst opulent surroundings. The photo was taken by Léon Busy in the smoking room of a private residence in French Indochina -- what is now Vietnam -- around 1915.

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