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Love Postcards from 1912
The Sumptuous Persian Costumes
Irandokht, born in 1942
Tehran’s Post and Communications Museum
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Former Embassy of Iran in Washington D.C.
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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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Andisheh (Don Bosco) School
Shopkeepers in Tehran
Nowruz Stamps
D’Arcy Carnival (1933)
English Textbook for High School (1966)
Tehran Opera Company (1974-75)
Mass-Produced Talismans
Covers of Ettela´at Monthly
Calligraphy in Prison
Bushehr, the Early 1970s

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