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Necklace
Necklace given to Hanna (Khurshid), a Jewish girl, by the Imam Jumʻah of Mashhad on the day of the Allahdad.
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Fatimah Khanum ‘Izzat al-Saltanah (‘Izzat al-Dawlah) to ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma
Fatimah Khanum ‘Izzat al-Saltanah (‘Izzat al-Dawlah) writes to her husband, ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma, about her purchases and the souvenirs.
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Marriage contract of Qamar Sultan Khanum and Mirza Hasan Khan Mukarram al-Sultan, 1925
Marriage contract of Qamar Sultan Khanum, the daughter of Mirza Muhammad Khan Munshi Bashi, and Mirza Hasan Khan Mukarram al-Sultan, the son of Aqa Muhammad Sadiq Aqa the merchant from Kashan. The mahr is a Qurʼan, a Kashmir shawl, a diamond ring, and eight hundred tumans. Part of the mahr has been paid and the rest remains the groom's debt. The conditions of the marriage contract are the following: for five years, Qamar Sultan Khanum has the right to divorce if her husband is absent for more than a year, or does not pay living expenses. The groom also promises that for fifty years he will...
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‘Abd al-Husayn Mu‘azzaz al-Mulk to Surur al-Saltanah
‘Abd al-Husayn Mu‘azzaz al-Mulk (Taymurtash) writes to Surur al-Saltanah and tells her that he is sending her a shawl, a turquoise ring, a pair of diamond earrings, and a turbah that he has blessed in Khurasan; he had purchased them all in Mashhad. There is a seal of Surur al-Saltanah, on the top dated 1327 [AH].
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Marriage agreement of Rubabah Aqayi and Fath Allah Jamshidi, 1935
Marriage agreement of Rubabah Aqayi, daughter of Haydar ʻAli from Khuzan, and Fath Allah Jamshidi, son of Ramazan ʻAli from Khuzan. The mahr includes twenty-six tumans and two thousand five hundred dinars, one-twelfth of a residential building located in the Shamsabad neighborhood of Khuzan, some properties in the Andan village known as Jaʻfarabad, and one pair of gold earrings worth ten tumans. Additionally, ten tumans will be paid as the bridal gift to buy women's clothes.
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Description of courtships and marriages of ʻImad al-Saltanah
ʻImad al-Saltanah wrote this booklet about the description of women who were considered for him to court. This booklet includes 10 pages.
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Mahyar Khalili's interview
Mahyar Khalili's interview conducted by Afsaneh Najmabadi, Farshideh Mirbaghdadabadi and Mihrdad Ghaffari on 6 June 2013. Mahyar Khalili shares his memory of old time weddings, and also other memories related to family members.
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Correspondence of I‘timad al-Atibba’ (Sultan al-Atibba’) and his son Mu‘tamad al-Sultan
Correspondence of I‘timad al-Atibba’ (Sultan al-Atibba’) and his son Mu‘tamad al-Sultan, including several letters concerning family, business, and household affairs.
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Writing, 1908
It begins with quotations from Baha’ Allah and ‘Abd al-Baha’, and includes the importance of the meeting between Tayirah Khanum, Mr. Charles Mason Remey, and Mr. Sydney on uniting west and east under the Baha'i faith; at the end of their talk, they told Tayirah Khanum about American women, and Tayirah Khanum took off her pearl necklace and handed it to Mr. Remey to give it to the American women. This pearl necklace was given to Tayirah Khanum by Malakah Iran, sister of Muzaffar al-Din Shah. It also includes a list of Baha’i women who hold meetings in different cities in Iran.
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Surur al-Saltanah and Mu‘azzaz al-Mulk love letters, 1909 to 1910
Love letters of ‘Abd al-Husayn Mu‘azzaz al-Mulk (Taymurtash), son of Karim Dad Khan, to Surur al-Saltanah, daughter of Zarrin Kulah Khanum and Khazin al-Mulk, accompanied by some envelopes and part of a letter, probably from Surur al-Saltanah to Mu‘azzaz al-Mulk. These letters were most likely written during the time between their ‘Aqd (formal contract of marriage) and ‘Arusi (marriage celebration and consummation), while Surur al-Saltanah was living in Tehran and Mu‘azzaz al-Mulk was traveling between Tehran and Khurasan; the letters have also been separately included in this collection;...
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