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Dressmaker advertisement, 1910

An advertisement for making women and children's clothing
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Dabistan-i Sanayi‘-i Mukhaddarat, 1910

Accepting students for sewing and embriodery classes as well as accepting orders for tailoring women and children clothes
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Zahra Sultan ‘Izzat al-Saltanah to Khadijah Sultan

Zahra Sultan ‘Izzat al-Saltanah writes to her mother, Khadijah Sultan Khanum, in Tehran, from Hamadan, and tells her that she is still waiting for her boxes from Tehran, that she does not have enough appropriate clothing to wear and that this is embarrassing when she has visitors, especially European guests. She asks her mother to buy new fashionable clothing for her and gives her a list of items she needs, including a pair of shoes, a black chador, some textiles from which to tailor a dress to wear in front of her European guests on Nawruz, some other textiles for her chaqchur [a kind of...
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Zahra Sultan ‘Izzat al-Saltanah to Khadijah Sultan

Zahra Sultan ‘Izzat al-Saltanah writes to her mother, Khadijah Sultan Khanum and expresses her concern about not receiving letters from her; talks about the moderate winter weather in Hamadan, the nice people there, and her new social life; she describes how women dress in Hamadan, that the old fashions in Tehran are now becoming fashionable in Hamadan: women wear chaqchur [a kind of leggings] when leaving the house as there is no carriage road in the city and people either walk or ride a donkey. She discusses the way they make jams and sweets and mentions that the prices of some goods are...
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Correspondence between Mahdiquli Mirza and A‘zam al-Saltanah

Correspondence between Mahdiquli Mirza and his mother A‘zam al-Saltanah about family affairs. There are also three letters from Mahdiquli Mirza to: his paternal grandmother, Mahin al-Saltanah; his sister Marziyah and his brother Mu'in al-Din; and a letter from Nusrat al-Saltanah to his wife, A‘zam al-Saltanah.
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Letters from Nusrat al-Saltanah to A‘zam al-Saltanah

Nusrat al-Saltanah writes from Europe to his wife, A‘zam al-Saltanah, in Tehran, about his financial situation, family affairs, and his daily activities in Europe.

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