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Tehran’s Decorative Murals
Covers for “Ketabe Jom’e”
Voices of the Poets
Stereoscopic Pictures of Iran in the Early 20th Century
A pocket guide to Iran (1943)
Ganjifa Playing Cards
Googoosh Record Covers
Falak (Bastinado)
Prophet Mohammad, Depicted as a Tunisian Child
On the Importance of Prayers

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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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Samarkand Persian Hotel
Mass-Produced Talismans
Plasco Building, Tehran
Building Azadi Tower (Shahyad)
Iranian Women in Harper’s (1887)
Iranian Vinyl Records
Post-Revolutionary Cigarettes
Business Cards
Baghe Takht in Shiraz
Old Tomb of Hafez

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