Inside America’s 19th Century opium dens which spread across the country ... One of the more light-hearted images shows a Chinese man smoking an opium pipe while clutching his cat in San ...

We think of opium dens as a distinctly 19th-century phenomenon, but that may not be the case. Following a question to Curious Melbourne, we delve into the city's history to find out whether they ...

CLOSING AN OPIUM DEN.; A CHINESE JOINT IN MULBERRY-STREET ENTERED BY THE POLICE. Share full article. July 25, 1886. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

AN OPIUM DEN CLOSED.; THE PROPRIETOR AND TWENTY-FIVE OTHER PERSONS ARRESTED. Share full article. Nov. 25, 1883. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

Pearl Woo, owner of the Chinese restaurant beneath the tiered roof on Broadway, has heard them all: opium den, ... 53, who told him a long story about a bat, a cat, a door and the floor.

In 1875, having found that many white men and women patronized the local "opium dens," the San Francisco Board of Supervisors attempted to check the "growing evil." To that end, they imposed hefty ...

A scene from 1842 during the first Opium War between China and Britain. Such battles more than 150 years ago were about control over trade, finance, and sovereignty — much like China’s ...

The opium dens "patronized by the lower classes defy description," the paper said, but gave it a go anyway: "Imagine a room less than fifteen feet square, with a ceiling about eight feet high.

1880s opium trail infected city-folk and pioneers alike, across states and the Dakota Territory From Deadwood, South Dakota, to Bottineau, North Dakota, and east to Duluth and St. Paul, opium ...