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Question and answer from Mirza Sayyid ‘Ali about his mother's will, 1890

Query addressed to Mirza Sayyid ‘Ali about his mother's bequest, which according to him she had requested to be used for charity and prayers on her behalf. The writer is asking Mirza Sayyid ‘Ali whether she had an executor of the will. On the margin is written [by Mirza Sayyid ‘Ali?] that she had not chosen an executor, but Navvab Mirza Muhammad Husayn had been asked to take care of her will. On the back: "the document in which I inquired from Aqa Mirza Sayyid ‘Ali and he responded that the late mother had not appointed the [his?] brother to execute her will."
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Charity on behalf of Nuzhat al-Dawlah, 1927

Request that Majd al-Iyalah pay five tumans to Mirza Riza Amin al-‘Ulama’ as Nuzhat al-Dawlah's charitable donation. On the margin, Aqa Muhammad Baqir is instructed to carry out the transaction.
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Mah Baygum's petition

Petition of Mah Baygum, wife of Mashhadi Taqi Khayyat (tailor), requesting the addressee send their donation earlier
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Annual report of Jamʻiyat-i rah-i naw [Society for a New Path], 1961
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Report on the activities of a charity organization

Two-page report on the activities of a charity organization that assists the poor. Item six concerns a woman unable to care for her children since her husband died.
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Widowed woman from Astarabad asks for financial support

A widowed woman from Astarabad who lived in Tehran asked for financial support.
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Anik Istipaniyan

Anik Istipaniyan, oldest daughter of Ninish Amirkhaniyan (Istipanian), during her last year as the chair of the Armenian Women's Charity Society in Tehran.
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Group portrait

From left to right, the first seated figure is Anik Istipaniyan, chair of the Armenian Women's Charity Society at this time. Next to her is Birsabi, the principal of the co-educational Muslim and Christian kindergarten.
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Petition to Hujjat al-Islam Aqa

In a letter to Hujjat al-Islam Aqa, a woman requests that he pay her food expenses. She states that Hujjat al-Islam can research her impoverished status by asking others or sending someone to her home. On verso, some ahadith are written.
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Group portrait

From left to right the fifth standing figure is Anik Istipaniyan, daughter of Ninish Amirkhaniyan (Istipaniyan), among Armenian women's Charity Society in Tehran.

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