First Grade Persian Textbook (1939)
Pages from a textbook for Iranian first grade students published in 1939.
(Source: Daastaane Hamshahri)
Pages from a textbook for Iranian first grade students published in 1939.
(Source: Daastaane Hamshahri)
This article from Asre Jadid newspaper published on 29th of September 1915, discusses and argues the necessity of a national anthem for Iran. It introduces a new piece by Gholamreza Salar Moazez, proposed by him to be Iran’s first national anthem.
Cigarette cards are trade cards issued by tobacco manufacturers to stiffen cigarette packaging and advertise cigarette brands. What you see here is a collection of Iran-related cards from the late 19th century and early 20th century.
In the last years of the Iran/Iraq war, at the time of the battle of the cities, chemical bombardments had become a daily occurrence at the front. There was fear that Tehran would come under chemical attack.
Old post cards of Ayatollah Khomeini, published in the early years of the Iranian revolution (1978-1979).
A collection of photos of young and up-and-coming artists in the 1969 Yearbook of Ettelaat.
Iranian popular music changed most radically in the 1960s, when it shifted from the traditional to the western style that would dominate the 1970s. Faegheh Atashin, most famously known as Googoosh, is one of the major contributors to the western style of pop music. Originally pressed on the vinyl format in 1960s and 1970s, her songs and performances were banned after the Iranian revolution of 1979 but her music preserved via the cassettes in the 1980s and CDs in the 1990s in diaspora. Here are her vinyl record covers mainly from 1970s.
Mrs. Louis Dreyfus, wife of the U.S. Minister to Iran, distributes food and medicine to poor children of Southern Tehran in 1943.
Pages from a Persian textbook for the second grade students published in 1960.
(Source: M. Ghaed)
Childhood photos of some Iranian figures of art, literature, politics, and pop culture.