| The Smoker's Dreams is a set of six fantasy images of women's heads in clouds of tobacco smoke. Several postcards and postcard sets relating to women and smoking were published during the Golden Age of Postcards, circa 1898-1915. These paintings by Samuel L. Schmucker are similar in many respects to the next set, The Drinkers. Smoking and drinking are both related to escapism and fantasy, and these two sets of postcards may have been published to compliment each other. Seven known, published paintings by Schmucker, including four in this set, have not been found. The missing paintings presumably were purchased in Yellowstone National Park by tourists in 1936. The story of how Schmucker's paintings came to Montana, and the images of the missing paintings, are in this book. |  |
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