Photograph taken at the start of the 42nd academic year at the American Memorial School on August 30, 1923.

Tabriz Memorial Highschool

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One of the first modern schools in Iran, the American Memorial School was established in Tabriz in 1881 by the American Presbyterian Mission. In the spring of 1909, during the Iranian Constitutional revolution, one of the young American teachers of the school, Howard Baskerville, was killed in a battle against the monarchists.
 After World War II, the school was renamed Parvin High School by Iran’s Ministry of Education.

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روش آموزش کرولالها نوشته ی جبار باغچه بان - Guide to Deaf-mute Education by Jabbar Baghtcheban

Baghtcheban’s Guide to Deaf Education

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“Method of Teaching the Deaf” by Mirza Jabbar Asgarzadeh, known as Jabbar Baghcheban, was the first book for speech training for Iranian deaf students.
Baghcheban was born to Iranian parents in Yerevan, Armenia, in 1884. After World War I, he moved to Iran’s East Azerbaijan province and started work as a teacher.

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First Grade Persian Textbook-1939 (6)

First Grade Persian Textbook (1939)

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Pages from a textbook for Iranian first grade students published in 1939.
(Source: Daastaane Hamshahri)

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Second Grade Persian Textbook (2)

Second Grade Persian Textbook (1960)

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Pages from a Persian textbook for the second grade students published in 1960.
(Source: M. Ghaed)

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First Grade Persian Textbook (3)

First Grade Persian Textbook (~1945)

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Pages from a textbook for Iranian first grade students published in the last years of the world War II.
(Source: ISNA)

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