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A Passion Play for Fatima Soghra
First Grade Persian Textbook (1939)
Bushehr, the Early 1970s
Iranian Politicians from 1940s
A Zurkhaneh in Tehran
Darakeh
White Deev
Googoosh Record Covers
Covers for “Ketabe Jom’e”
Persepolis in Tehrangeles

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Lady Cockroach

Lady Cockroach

Lady Cockroach is a short play for children published in 1929 in the city of Shiraz, Iran. According to the cover, the author Mirza Jabbar Askarzadeh (often known as Jabbar Baghtcheban) was the head-teacher of a kindergarten in Shiraz. He later established the first Iranian kindergarten for the deaf, and was the inventor of Persian cued speech.

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Nastaliq on electricity jack

Calligraphy in Everyday Life

Nastaliq and Shekaste styles of Iranian calligraphy have been in use since 16 century. At the beginning they where the styles of choice for writing the royal orders and decrees, official documents, and books of literature. Today they are used everywhere, sometimes on the most ordinary objects of everyday life.

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Composition & Dictation Notebook from 1937
Samarkand Persian Hotel
Iranian Costumes
English Textbook for High School (1966)
Comic books in Persian
A Public Bath in Shiraz
Orientalist Music Sheets’ Covers
Th[o/e]se Days
Iranian Pipe Smokers
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