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Baghtcheban’s Guide to Deaf Education
Plasco Building, Tehran
The Sumptuous Persian Costumes
Bushehr, the Early 1970s
Persepolis in Tehrangeles
Darakeh
Tehrangeles Phone Cards
Iranian Women in Harper’s (1887)
Iran National Football Team
Tarzan, the Son of Tehran’s Jungles

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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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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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Tehran’s Ferdowsi Avenue
First Grade Persian Textbook (1939)
One thousand and One nights (1853)
Avalon Theatre, a Persian Palace in Chicago
Strolling around Shariati Avenue
Old Store Signs of Shiraz
Iran National Football Team
Dizi Restaurant in Tarasht
Cigarette Cards
Faces from Old Neighborhoods in Shiraz

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