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Bath wrapping cloth
Embroidered; belonged to Badr al-Sadat Afqahi, who inherited it from her mother, Monir Tafreshi, or through her maternal line, and passed it down to her daughter, Mahbobe Ghods.
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Set of bath wrapping clothes
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Bath wrapping cloth
Belonged to Baygum Agha (daughter of Maryam Jan Baygum and Mirza Muhammad Husayn)
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Set of bath wrapping clothes
Belonged to Saltanat Khanum (daughter of Aqa Riza Quli Bayg)
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Bath wrapping cloth
Four pieces of embroidered tirmah that belonged to Badr al-Sadat Afqahi, who inherited them from her mother, Monir Tafreshi, or through her maternal line, and passed them down to her daughter, Mahbobe Ghods.
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Bath cloth
Part of the dowry of Nimtaj (Taj al-Sadat) Shaykh al-Islami, daughter of Navvab al-Hajiyah and Mirza Masʻud Shaykh al-Islam, wife of Mirza Mufid Shaykh al-Islam (Dibaj).
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Letter
Letter about household and financial matters.
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Basat-i nishat
A sarcastic and male-centered essay in which noble women are "ugly" or old, and female slaves are pretty, kind and well-behaved.There are parts on men's desire for men and women's desire for women, vows of sisterhood, preparation of the bride and groom for the wedding night, wives and husbands relationships, etc. Parts of the document refer to Kulsum Nanah. At the end, there is a review of different types of pleasure according to their length.
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ʻAziz al-Saltanah's petition to Nayib al-Saltanah
Petition from ʻAziz al-Saltanah, Nasir al-Din Shah's daughter, to Nayib al-Saltanah in which she mentions her having been born shortly after her father was killed, how she had lived all her life with her mother [Mahbub al-Saltanah] and that she had not inherited anything from her father. After the Constitutional Revolution, the Majlis had cut her pension to 1000 tumans. However, Mirza Fath Allah Khan, the provincial treasurer of Gilan, returned her payslip claiming that the money has been paid to Sardar Afkham. ʻAziz al-Saltanah writes about the hardship she has gone through and how she has...
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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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- Dbaths and bath accessories
Collections
- Amir Hossein Nikpour(4)
- Malik Sultan Khanum Masoudi Khurasani (3)
- Monir Tafreshi Nabavi(2)
- Shahnaz Shahzadi(1)
- Old Houses(1)
- Navvab Sharifi(1)
- National Library and Archives of the Islamic Republic of Iran(1)
- Majlis Library, Museum and Document Center(1)
- Kayvan and Rafi‘i(1)
- Institute for Iranian Contemporary Historical Studies(1)
- Bahram Sheikholeslami(1)
People
- Monir Tafreshi Nabavi(2)
- Badr al-Sadat Afqahi(2)
- ‘Aliriza Khan ‘Azud al-Mulk (Nayib al-Saltanah)(1)
- ʻAziz al-Saltanah(1)
- ʻAbd Allah Mirza (Dara)(1)
- Zarbanu Ardashir Kadkhuda(1)
- Saltanat Khanum (daughter of Aqa Riza Quli Bayg)(1)
- Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar(1)
- Muhammad ‘Ali Sardar Afkham (1)
- Mihrbanu Isfandiyar Bahman Kadkhuda(1)
- Khavar Bihruzi(1)
- Kaykhusraw Khudadad Bahman Rustam Kadkhuda (1)
- Baygum Agha (Khanum Amir)(1)
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- D Muzaffar al-Din Shah