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Shirin Rustamiyan
Baking local bread which was called Surug in Yazd and Siru in Kirman.
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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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Zinat al-Hajiyah and others
From right, seated: 1- Zinat al-Hajiyah, 2- ‘Aliyah Khanum, 3- unidentified, 4- Mir ‘Imadi (Hamdam's sister), 5- Hamdam, 6- Ms. Qahriman, and others are unidentified; standing (from right): 1- Navvab Mirza Muhammad ‘Ali Sharifi (Zinat al-Hajiyah's husband), 2- Navvab Aqa Husayn (husband of ‘Aliyah Khanum), 3- unidentified, 4- Qahrimani (the head of Yazd Constabulary Office), and 5-unidentified.
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Dowry registry of Ruqiyah Baygum, 1906
Dowry registry of Ruqiyah Baygum, daughter of Sayyid Taqi the leather seller, which was taken to the house of her husband, Muhammad Ibrahim the merchant from Yazd.
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Marriage contract between Rubabah Khanum and Aqa Ghulam ʻAli, 1914
Marriage contract between Rubabah Khanum, the daughter of Husayn Aqa, and Aqa Ghulam ʻAli, the son of Muhammad Aqa, dated June 14, 1914. The mahr includes parts of some properties and land, some clothing, and some textiles.
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Marriage contract of Bibi Kuchak and Muhammad Baqir, 1826
Marriage contract of Bibi Kuchak, the daughter of Ustad Husayn Fakhkhar from Yazd, and Muhammad Baqir, son of Hasan (son of Zu al-Fiqar Naqi) with a mahr of 20 tumans, which includes: 10 shares of the shared ownership of a house (the ownership of which was divided into 80 shares), an outfit worth 10 tumans, two-and-a-half Shah-mans [each is six kilograms] of copper worth five tumans, gold, and a carpet for covering a room, worth five tumans. The groom's mother contributed the gold and the house, his father contributed the carpet, and the rest remain the groom's debt.
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Marriage contract of Umm Kulsum Banu and Muhammad ʻAli, 1831
Marriage contract of Umm Kulsum Banu, thedaughter of Rajab ʻAli, and Muhammad ʻAli, the son of Mulla ʻAbd Allah from Yazd. The mahr includes: two-sixths of the shared ownership of a house, worth ten tumans, clothes worth five tumans, two Shah-mans [each of which is six kilograms] of copper worth four tumans, a carpet for covering a room, worth two tumans, a mirror worth five thousand dinars, some gold and silver, a dowry chest worth one tuman, and two thousand dinars.
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Marriage contract of Khanum Buzurg and Mirza Masʻud Khan, 1870
Marriage contract of Khanum Buzurg, the daughter of Lutf Allah Mirza, and Mirza Masʻud Khan, the son of Muhammad Husain, with a mahr of 1120 tumans, which includes: four shares of a qanat in Hidayat Aabad village's water, clothing worth 500 tumans, gold [jewelry] worth 200 tumans, a carpet worth 150 tumans, copper dishes made in Yazd worth 50 tumans, silver worth 75 tumans, a Qurʼan worth 25 tumans, and one male slave and one female slave worth 80 tumans.
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Marriage contract of Khanum Buzurg and Mirza Masʻud, 1870
Marriage contract of Khanum Buzurg, daughter of Lutf Allah Mirza, and Mirza Masʻud, son of Mirza Muhammad Husayn, with a mahr of 1120 tumans, which includes: two shares of use of water from a qanat worth 500 tumans, clothes worth 200 tumans, gold worth 150 tumans, two carpets worth 50 tumans, 50 mans [each man is three kilograms] of copperware made in Yazd worth 75 tumans, silver worth 250 tumans, a Qurʼan worth 40 tumans, a slave and a male servant worth 80 tumans. These items were settled for the stipulated amount of money [1120 tumans].
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Marriage contract between Bibi Zahra Sultan Khanum and Sayyid Hasan, 1921
Marriage contract between Bibi Zahra Sultan Khanum, the daughter of Haj Mirza Habib, and Sayyid Hasan, the son of Haji Sayyid Husayn, dated November 19, 1921. The mahr includes parts of a property and some land in Ashkazar, a carpet, some clothing, a mirror, copper containers, a chest, a chador, and some red gold. The items listed in the mahr were valued at 100 tumans.
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- ‘Aliyah Khanum (wife of Navvab Aqa Husayn)(1)
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- Mirza Hasan Baqa’i (Nayib al-Hukumat)(1)
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