File comprises one customs tariff book belonging to Collector of Customs A.R. Milne. The volume, published by the Canadian Customs Department, lists the price of importing opium.

File contains black and white film stills depicting the use of opium, head shots of actors starring in opium-related films, and copies of film reviews.

File contains black and white film stills depicting the use of opium, head shots of actors starring in opium-related films, and copies of film reviews.

File contains ephemera related to the transportation, pharmaceutical dispensation, and federal regulation of opium, particularly within the United States and Canada. Document types include anti-narcotic postage stamps developed by United Nations, a package of Stanback Headache Powder, advertisements for patent medicines containing opium, handwritten pharmaceutical prescriptions in Chinese and English, pharmacy stock lists, and U.S. Treasury Department order forms.

File contains photographs and postcards depicting writers and performers known for their use of opium. Key figures represented include Colette, Charles Baudelaire, Jean Cocteau, Oscar Wilde, and more.

File contains positive transparencies featuring English books and periodicals depicting opium and morphine use. Transparencies also depict famous English individuals noted for their opium use.

File contains positive transparencies featuring French books and periodicals depicting opium and morphine use. Transparencies also depict famous French individuals noted for their opium use.

File contains positive transparencies depicting pharmaceutical paraphernalia related to morphine and opium use. Paraphernalia includes various hypodermic kits and needles, vials, throat pastilles, and bottles.

File contains positive transparencies depicting opium-smoking paraphernalia. Paraphernalia includes opium boxes, various pipes, scales, and lamps.

File contains positive transparencies originating from the Vancouver Police Museum and Archives. Transparencies depict individuals who were arrested in Vancouver for drug-related reasons.

File contains positive transparencies depicting Hodgson’s photographs of poppies, lobby cards, sheet music, and pharmaceutical prescriptions for laudanum.

File contains colour and black and white stereo cards and postcards depicting the transportation, sale, and ingestion of opium.

File contains colour and black and white stereo cards and postcards depicting the transportation, sale, and ingestion of opium.

File contains print copies of engravings depicting the production, transportation, sale, and ingestion of opium. Key figures represented include Walter Scott, Lord Clive, Reverend George Crabbe, Samuel Johnson, and Robert Southey.

File contains collectible, illustrated trade cards created by Victorian-era patent medicine companies to advertise medications containing morphine. A representative example is a trade card depicting a healthy, sleeping child who has been treated with Parker’s Tonic. In a similar vein, a card advertising Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup features a mother and a content, albeit teething, child.