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Nasir al-Din Shah in his inner quarters
Inscription: "Zaʻfaran Baji, Aqa [?] Khvajah"
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Regarding Batul Khanum and Layli Khanum's salaries, 1910
Documents include letters of salary confirmation for daughters of Mirza Hadi Khan Munshi: Batul Khanum (Mirza Shukr Allah Khan's wife) and Layli Khanum (Mirza Sayyid ‘Abd al-Rahim's wife); their power of attorney to Mirza Shukr Allah Khan to represent and receive their salaries; and their identity verification and salary forms
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Regarding Khadijah Khanum Vaqar al-Saltanah and Fatimah Khanum Sharaf al-Saltanah's salaries, 1910
Documents include letters of salary confirmation for Khadijah Khanum Vaqar al-Saltanah, daughter of Haj Husayn‘ali Tajir (merchant) and wife of Nasir al-Din Shah, and Fatimah Khanum Sharaf al-Saltanah, daughter of Nasir al-Din Shah and wife of Vakil al-Sultan; their power of attorney (due to illness) to Mirza ‘Aliriza to represent and receive their salaries; and their identity verification and salary forms
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Regarding Nafisah Khanum's salary, 1910
Documents include letters of salary confirmation for Nafisah Khanum, daughter of ‘Abd al-Samad Mirza Riza ‘Izz al-Dawlah and wife of Muhammad Hasan Mirza, regarding her inheritance from her grandmother (‘Izz al-Dawlah's mother) and her mother-in-law (Qahriman Mirza's wife); her power of attorney to Shaykh Muhammad Mirza to represent and receive her salary; and her identity verification and salary form
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Tarikh-i ‘Azudi
Written by Sultan Ahmad Mirza ‘Azud al-Dawlah, the son of Tavus Khanum Taj al-Dawlah and Fath‘ali Shah. ‘Azud al-Dawlah, who was ten years old when his father died, wrote this book in 1886 at the request of his nephew, Nasir al-Din Shah, with Muhammad Hasan Khan I‘timad al-Saltanah as an intermediary. In this book, he recounts the stories of the wives and children of Fath‘ali Shah. The current manuscript was hand-copied by Muhammad Hasan Ibn Husayn‘ali al-Fariqi al-Kamarah-’i, in 1901 or 1902, and includes 251 pages.
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Petition by Nasir al-Din Shah's wives, 1912 to 1917
Correspondence including petitions from ‘Aziz al-Saltanah [probably Nasir al-Din Shah's sister] and Mahbub al-Saltanah, Fatimah Sultan Khanum, and Farangis Khanum, Nasir al-Din Shah's wives, regarding their delinquent salaries, which were supposed to be issued in Gilan; they complain about Mukarram al-Dawlah's negligence. There are also letters from Mukarram al-Dawlah, the Ministries of Finance and Interior, and the Treasury Department.
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‘Izz al-Saltanah's petition, 1901
Petition by ‘Izz al-Saltanah to the Ministry of Finance, referring to a note issued by Sardar Afkham when he was the governor of Rasht, which included payments of two thousand and seven hundred tumans to ‘Izz al-Saltanah, ‘Aziz al-Saltanah, and Fatimah Sultan Khanum and Mahbub al-Saltanah (two of Nasir al-Din Shah's wives); she describes the inconvenience they had endured after the execution of Sardar Afkham, receiving another bill from Mirza Fath Allah Khan, which they could not convert to cash, and the eventual loss of the note; ‘Izz al-Saltanah is asking for the note to be reissued.
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Regarding salaries of Gawhar Malik Khanum, her mother, and her daughters, 1910
Documents include letters of salary confirmation for Bilqays Khanum (daughter of Sayf Allah Mirza and wife of Ahmad Mirza Mu‘in al-Dawlah from Nayib al-Saltanah's family), Gawhar Malik Khanum Muhtaram al-Saltanah (daughter of Mu‘in al-Dawlah and wife of Mirza Mahmud Mustawfi), as well as Nusrat Malik Khanum and Shawkat Malik Khanum (daughters of Mirza Mahmud Mustawfi); their power of attorney to Shahzadah ‘Abdallah Mirza to represent and receive their salaries; and their identity verification and salary forms
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Mahlaqa Mallah's interview- part I
Mahlaqa Mallah's interview, conducted on June 1st and 6th, 2014 by Afsaneh Najmabadi and Farshideh Mirbaghdadabadi, in which she shares memories of her mother, Afzal Vaziri, who was the daughter of Bibi Khanum Astarabadi. Also, she talks about her own childhood and youth.
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Giti Afruz Humayunfar's interview
Giti Afruz Humayunfar's interview conducted by Afsaneh Najmabadi and Samila Amir Ebrahimi, on April 18, 2017. Giti Khanum shares memories from her own life, her mother and father, and other family members.