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Embroidery
Embroidery with gold on velvet. It was used in wedding ceremonies to hold sugar cones. Made in Isfahan.
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Spinning thread
Two women and a little girl spinning thread in Isfahan
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Qalamkar curtain
This qalamkar curtain was made in Isfahan and belonged to ʻAlamtaj Mukri, which was then passed to Parivash Ladjevardi.
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Embroidery
Belonged to Mulki Jahan Khanum Rukni, wife of Mirza Buzurg Hakimbashi, mother of Jahan Ara (Hajiyah Khanum) Pizishkiyan. Possibly made by Armenians of Isfahan.
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Qamar Taj Dawlatabadi
Qamar Taj Dawlatabadi is pictured here with some Isfahani friends; she is the second person from the left in the first row of adults from front of the image.
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Marriage agreement of Baygum Agha and Sayyid Muhammad Taqi, 1939
Marriage agreement of Baygum Agha, daughter of Sayyid Karim son of Sayyid Habib Allah from Khuzan, and Sayyid Muhammad Taqi, son of Sayyid Hashim Furushani. The mahr includes one-twelfth of a house in Furushan village, and ninety tumans, of which twenty-six tumans and two-and-one-half riyals remain the groom's debt. The rest should be spent on gold, cotton wool, chintz, trays, and rugs. The groom's father transferred ownership of one-twelfth of the house to his son.
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List of income and expenses, 1900
List of expenses from December 1900 to January 1902. It contains the items and payments received by Mirza Muhammad Riza's mother, Zayn al-ʻAbidin's wife, and Mirza Aqa's wife.
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Marriage agreement of Khanum Sultan and Aqa ʻAbbas, 1922
Marriage agreement of Khanum Sultan, daughter of Karbalayi ʻAbd al-Samad son of the late Hasan from Khuzan, and Aqa ʻAbbas, son of Karbalayi Taqi son of ʻAbbas from Khuzan. The mahr includes twenty-five tumans, one-fourth of a residential building that belonged to the groom's father, located in the Shamsabad neighborhood of Khuzan, a property in Shamsabad that belonged to the groom's mother, a pair of gold earrings worth six tumans, plus six tumans and one-and-a-half mans [unit of weight] of cotton wool to make bedding.
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Marriage contract of Sayyidah Baygum and Latif ‘Ali, 1925
Marriage contract of Sayyidah Baygum, the daughter of the late Qadam‘ali Ibn Haj Aqa Hufi, and Latif ‘Ali, the son of the late Muhammad ‘Ali Ibn Haj Muhammad Varnusfadirani. The mahr includes twenty-six tumans and two thousand and five hundred dinars that remain the groom's debt; forty tumans for Sayyidah Baygum to purchase of women's clothing, jewelry, fabric, copperware, and carpets; and thirty tumans to Sayyidah Baygum to purchase a house in the neighborhood of her choice. Dated January 23, 1925; on verso: "In 1927, Latif ‘Ali paid forty tumans and seven thousand dinars to Sayyidah...
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Letters of Sadiqah Dawlatabadi to ʻAbd al-Husayn Sanʻatizadah
Several letters from Sadiqah Dawlatabadi to ʻAbd al-Husayn Sanʻatizadah including the following: one in which she congratulates Sanʻatizadah on his betrothal to Qamar Taj and thanks him for a loan of 1,500 francs; one in which she refers to ʻAbd al-Husayn's recent appendectomy; one in which she writes to him about her studies and life in Paris and her hopes to improve Iran; and one in which she writes about the differences between life in France and Iran.
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