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.
In August 1927 Iranian men were required by law to replace their Iranian-style hats and turbans with a new hat, designed based on the French military kepi, called Pahlavi.
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.
Comic books were not popular in Iran until the 1960s when a children’s magazine, Keyhan Bacheha, began publishing them. Between 1969 to 1977 Universal Publishers, published thirteen books from Tintin series.
An abandoned traditional house in the middle of Marvi Alley in the old part of Tehran.
An undated talisman for warding off co-wife. It is most probably from the late 19th century or early 20th century.
End of the School Year Photos of Andisheh (Don Bosco) School.
In 1901 Prince Malek Mansur Mirza Shao es-Saltaneh ordered Ali-Akbar Mozayyen-al-Dawla Naghash-bashi to make a decorative iron transenna for the Tomb of Hafez. The current Mausoleum was designed by André Godard, French archeologist and architect, in the late 1930s.
Mirza Mohammad Seifi Qazwini, also known as Emadolkottab (1861-1936), was a master calligrapher of Nasta’liq in the late Qajar period. Because of his membership in a terrorist group “Komiteye Mojazat – punishment committee” and writing the group’s unsigned leaflets, he was arrested and spent five years of his life in prison.
