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Baghtcheban’s Guide to Deaf Education
Bicycle License (1930)
Cigarette Cards
“Kanoon” Vinyl Records: Audio Books
Iranian Women in Harper’s (1887)
Iranian Vinyl Records
Pahlavi Hat and Dress Code for Men
Strolling around Shariati Avenue
Calligraphy in Prison
Tehran’s Valiahd Square in the 1970s

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Old Tomb of Hafez

In 1901 Prince Malek Mansur Mirza Shao es-Saltaneh ordered Ali-Akbar Mozayyen-al-Dawla Naghash-bashi to make a decorative iron transenna for the Tomb of Hafez. The current Mausoleum was designed by André Godard, French archeologist and architect, in the late 1930s.

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Building Azadi Tower (Shahyad)

The Azadi Tower, formerly known as the Shahyad (a translation of King Memorial Tower), is the symbol of Tehran and marks the entrance to the city.

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Typography in Ettelaat – 1970
Baghe Takht in Shiraz
First Grade Persian Textbook (1939)
First Grade Persian Textbook (~1945)
Vogue in Iran (1969)
Tehran Taxi in London
Animal Hospital in Tehran
Walking in Tehran’s Amirabad
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Second Grade Persian Textbook (1960)

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