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Envelope
Addressed to: Yazd, Haji Bibi
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Group portraits
From left: Kaykhusraw Rustam Kiyaniyan, Faridun Gharibshahi, and Suhrab Rustam Kiyaniyan; Faridun Gharibshahi was son of Firuzah Gharibshahi (sister of Kaykhusraw and Suhrab)
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Kaykhusraw Kadkhuda's house
One of the old houses of the Zoroastrian neighborhood in Yazd. According to the inscription on the stone plaque above the entrance: “In August (or September) of 2011, the children of Kaykhusraw Kadkhuda endowed this house in his memory to the Zoroastrian Society of Yazd, so that it can be used for charitable and religious matters.” The entrance hall leads on one side to a room and on the other to the large main courtyard of the house. As one enters the courtyard, the “piskam mas”(or main open salon), used for ceremonial purposes, is located to the left.
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Letter
Greeting letter, addressed to the writer's sister, expressing sympathy about the hardship that she has been through and discussing a document related to a stipend (she instructs the addressee how to find it). She also has some news from Karbala’.
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Letter
Greeting letter
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Letter
Greeting letter that also talks about some political issues in Tehran.
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Letter
Letter regarding a dispute involving the writer, the daughter of Aqa Husayn (the servant), and Aqa Navvab. The writer talks about his difficulties, including taxes and peasants and mentions that he did not have a chance to visit Aqa Navvab. At the end he denies the claims that he had beaten the daughter of Aqa Husayn.
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Letter from Ghulam Husayn ‘Amiri to Qamar al-Muluk ‘Amiri
Letter from Ghulam Husayn ‘Amiri to his wife, Qamar al-Muluk ‘Amiri, about sending money and some rice, requesting some pickled peppers and other pickled vegetables, complaining about not hearing from the addressee and and inquiring about their daughter ‘Ishrat's well-being
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Letter from Muhammad
Letter of greetings from Muhammad about some family news, including his child's typhoid fever. Also, reporting on the purchase of some medicine in Mashhad for the addressee, that some medicines are hard to find due to the difficulty of trade with Russia, and that he is sending some different samples. He also talks about purchasing of some textiles and women clothing.
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Letter from Pulad, 1903
Letter from Pulad, reporting a list of purchases of household items and the problems in finding the requested items as well as some political news related to the government of Yazd.
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