Retronaut posted the above vintage photo circa 1885 of a woman taking snuff. There’s some debate on the Internet as to whether it’s real or ‘shopped, but I’m not sure why it’s so controversial. As “unladylike” as it may seem for that era, snuff was actually considered an aristocratic luxury which separated the upper classes from the tobacco smoking lower classes.

I found another, smiliar photo, dated 1860 on the CWFP website. Maybe they’re just picking their noses and those aren’t snuff boxes they’re holding at all, but “booger holders”?
 

 
Below, an image of two Zulu women sniffing the snuff in 1925.