Armenian families in Isfahan
Three photographs of Armenian families, most likely taken to be attached to travel documents. The photographs were taken in Isfahan by Minas Patkerhanian Machertich in 1920s-1930s.
Three photographs of Armenian families, most likely taken to be attached to travel documents. The photographs were taken in Isfahan by Minas Patkerhanian Machertich in 1920s-1930s.
Photographs taken in an Animal Hospital in Tehran in 2009 and shows pets and their owners in different parts of the hospital.
The national football (soccer) team of Iran, known in Persian as Team Melli, ranks 1st in Asia and 33rd in the world according to the December 2013 FIFA World Rankings.
Massoud Nili, who has lived in the U.K. since he was 10 years old, changed his Peykan Hunter into a 1970s’ Iranian taxi.
He says: “To me my taxi is [like] history on four wheels, it gives me pleasure bringing back some memory from our past.”
Ahmad Shamloo in the Boghrat’s family album. Ahmad Shamloo (1925-2000) was a poet, writer, and journalist. He was one of the most influential poets of modern Iran.
Edwin Lord Weeks (1849-1903) was an American artist. He made many voyages to the East, including Iran. In 1895, he wrote and illustrated a book of travels, From the Black Sea through Persia and India, which has many illustrations of Iran (Persia).
English language textbook for the first year of high school in Iran, 1966.
A few pages from the Service and Maintenance Manual of Paykan (Persian: Arrow), which was an automobile produced by the Iranian company Iran Khodro (formerly called “Iran National”). The car was very popular in Iran from the late 1960s to the late 1990s. It is often referred as the Iranian chariot.
Inspired by a Persian incense burner found in an antique store in New Orleans, the architect John Eberson designed the Avalon Theatre of Chicago in late 1925.
