
Composition & Dictation Notebook from 1937
Composition and Dictation Notebook of the six-grader, Iraj Afshar, dated 1937.

Composition and Dictation Notebook of the six-grader, Iraj Afshar, dated 1937.

Lady Cockroach is a short play for children published in 1929 in the city of Shiraz, Iran.
According to the cover, the author Mirza Jabbar Askarzadeh (often known as Jabbar Baghtcheban) was the head-teacher of a kindergarten in Shiraz. He later established the first Iranian kindergarten for the deaf, and was the inventor of Persian cued speech.

Pages from the 4th grade spelling notebook of Iraj Afshar. Dated 1935.

During the first 13 years of activity before the Iranian revolution (1965-1978) The Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults – also known as Kanoon – produced and published books, records, and films for children and young Iranians. Here is a collection of cover designs for “Voices of the Poets” series published in the 1970s.

During the first 13 years of activity before the Iranian revolution (1965-1978) The Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, Also known as Kanoon, produced and published books, records, and films for children and young Iranians. Here is a collection of cover designs for “Kanoon” Audio Books from that era.

Pages from a textbook for Iranian first grade students published in 1939.
(Source: Daastaane Hamshahri)

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.

Pages from a textbook for Iranian first grade students published in the last years of the world War II.
(Source: ISNA)