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Small models of Iranian shops & workshops
Baghtcheban’s Guide to Deaf Education
Portraits of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar
Beauty Styles for Men
Calligraphy in Everyday Life
Edwin Lord Weeks
The Scrapbook of Professions
Iranian Playing Cards
Proposal for the National Anthem (1915)

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Rostam moves the giant rock to free Bijan

An Overlooked Shahnamah

These are images from a recently-found completely unrecorded Shahnameh in British Library collection. This copy of Shahnameh is probably from 1640, illustrated by by Muhammad Yusuf, a prolific artist during the reigns of the Safavid rulers Shah Safi (r. 1629-42) and Shah Abbas II (r. 1642-66).

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Rostam kills White Deev - نبرد رستم و دیو سفید

White Deev

For ages the battle of Rostam and White Deev has been one of the most popular subjects among Iranian book illustrators, tile-makers, and coffee-house painters.

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Tehrangeles Phone Cards
Sycamores of Valiasr Avenue
Advertisements for Oil Products
British WWII Propaganda Posters
Zahirol-Eslam’s House
Baghtcheban’s Guide to Deaf Education
Edwin Lord Weeks
Iranian Sandals
Pahlavi Hat and Dress Code for Men
Pre-Revolutionary Cigarettes

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