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Pre-revolution Soundtrack Album Covers

This is a collection of album cover art for the soundtracks of pre-revolutionary movies made in Iran in the late 1960s and 1970s. The collection includes designs for the soundtracks of art-house movies as well as commercial blockbusters.

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Quran over an Entrance to a Zoorkhaneh

Protective Sacred Words

Placing Islamic inscriptions (mostly words from Quran) over the entrances to the houses, business places, or public buildings used to be common in the past. It seems placing these words on the entrances has its roots in an older tradition that sees a supernatural power in words.

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An Iranian Restaurant in Virginia
Lalezar, the Glorious Days
Tehran’s Post and Communications Museum
Composition & Dictation Notebook from 1937
Last day of Café Prague in Tehran
Tagging on Tehran’s Trees
Comic books in Persian
British WWII Propaganda Posters
Manhole Covers
Samarkand Persian Hotel

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