Search
-
1Images
About property settlements amongst Taji Khanum, Khusraw, Bahram, and Mu‘tasam al-Mamalik, 1903
Discusses two property disputes which have been settled amongst Taji Khanum, Khusraw, Bahram, and Mu‘tasam al-Mamalik, and mentions sending the copies of the settlements to the addressee.
-
1Images
On women's education, 1909
By ‘Abd Allah Vasiq al-Sultan
-
2Images
Telegram from Hajiyah Malakah Khanum to ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma, 1904
After the greeting, Hajiyah Malakah Khanum, cousin of ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma, talks about Aqa Sayydi Hasan Khan, the tenant of her three villages, who went to Tehran to receive and deliver an order. She asks her cousin to order the Lieutenant Governor of Burujird to leave her tenant and the peasants of these three villages alone and allow them to live the way they are now.
-
2Images
Letter from Talʻat al-Dawlah to ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma
Talʻat al-Dawlah, daughter of Nadim al-Saltanah and wife of Haji ʻAliriza Khan, talks about the hardships she faced after her husband's death. She describes how agents looted her house and seized fifty thousand tumans worth of property that Haji ʻAliriza Khan had transferred to their daughter, Muhtaram, before passing away. Also, her husband's nephew sent a telegram to Tehran claiming his share of these belongings. The writer notes the cruelty her and her daughter experienced, and asks the addressee for help and justice.
-
1Images
Letter to ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma, 1892
Includes issues facing several villages such as in Qaysar Abad village, where Najm al-Saltanah has issue with Karbalayi Mahdiquli, as a tenant, on it crops; the great functionality of a qanat; and increasing prices in Tehran. The writer talks about his role in the transactions of Isfandiyari and ʻAli Abad properties and several houses, as well as Najm al-Saltanah's role; the interest for Munavvar al-Saltanah's property worth forty-five thousand tumans and her willingness to sell it; and Shukuh al-Saltanah being not well.
-
1Images
Regarding displacement of Targavir village people, 1907
A telegram from Imamquli in Urumiyah to Atabak A‘zam in Tehran regarding the pillage of Mavanah and Targavir villages by the Ottoman nomads, and the killing of eighteen men and sixty-six women and children. Around three thousand people, mostly Christians, from the neighboring villages, have fled to Urumiyah and are in need of food and clothing; the writer has been collecting aid from the elite and merchants of Urumiyah and is asking for the government's assistance, suggesting that any aid should be delivered via the Christian clergy who will distribute it among their people.
-
1Images
On women's education, 1909
Written by [Muhammad Isma‘il] Munir Mazandarani
-
1Images
Regarding Malakah Jahan's property tenant
Letter by Quch‘ali Muvaffaq al-Mulk, Malakah Jahan Khanum's steward, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, recounting the actions of Riza Quli, a tenant of the Sa’in Qal‘ah and Nasir Abad properties, who has stolen some grains and refused to pay his rent, ousted Mirza ‘Ali Khan from the village, seizing his guns, horses, and household furnishings, harassed the village peasants, and captured and chained Haj Kalb‘ali and Haj Sabz‘ali, Malakah Jahan's stewards.
-
14Images
Correspondence regarding the murder of Haydar Quli, 1919
Investigation of the murder of Haydar Quli with the order of Hisam al-Mulk's wife. Includes correspondence among the Governors of Savah and Zarand, Tehran, and Hamadan. According to a report by the gendarmerie, Hisam al-Mulk's wife stopped at Gharq Abad village on her way to Hamadan. During the night, Haydar Quli entered her house intending to commit robbery but one of the servants arrested him. In the morning, while he attempted to escape, he was shot in the back by the servant. However, the peasants of Gharq Abad claimed in a petition that there was a fight between Haydar Quli and one of...
Filter
- D Reset
Genres
Subjects
- villages(9)
- property and property management(4)
- letter writing(4)
- husband and wife(4)
- grains(4)
- telegraph(3)
- peasants(3)
- money(3)
- food(3)
- death(3)
- crime(3)
- women's rights(2)
- servants(2)
- sciences(2)
- schools(2)
- rent(2)
- quarreling(2)
- politics and government(2)
- pillage(2)
- petitions(2)
- more
- villages(9)
- property and property management(4)
- letter writing(4)
- husband and wife(4)
- grains(4)
- telegraph(3)
- peasants(3)
- money(3)
- food(3)
- death(3)
- crime(3)
- women's rights(2)
- servants(2)
- sciences(2)
- schools(2)
- rent(2)
- quarreling(2)
- politics and government(2)
- pillage(2)
- petitions(2)
- household furnishings(2)
- education(2)
- clothing(2)
- agriculture(2)
- weddings(1)
- weapons(1)
- veils(1)
- travel(1)
- telephone(1)
- taxes(1)
- sewing(1)
- rites and ceremonies(1)
- qanats(1)
- power of attorney(1)
- literature(1)
- imprisonment(1)
- households(1)
- horses and horse riding(1)
- homeland(1)
- gendarmerie(1)
- financial matters(1)
- debts and loans(1)
- cooking(1)
- children(1)
- books(1)
- banks and banking(1)
- arrest(1)
- armies(1)
- animals(1)
- Qur’an(1)
- Premier(1)
- Ottomans(1)
- Ministry of Interior(1)
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs(1)
- Kurds(1)
- Christians(1)
Subjects
Collections
People
Places
- DTehran