Majlis Document Center -- Farmanfarma documents
Collection of letters and petitions and a postcard
Collection Details
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History
For a larger selection of materials available to researchers, visit the Majlis Library, Museum and Document Center website.
- Dates late-19th to early-20th century
- Date Acquired January 21, 2014
- Last Edited 2 March 2023
- Record Number 1018C
- Genres correspondence petitions photographs legal & financial writings testimony
- Subjects children husband and wife siblings illness postcards travel inheritance money crime letter writing marriage receipts mediation advice peasants property and property management agriculture politics and government water and irrigation qanats illicit sex tribes servants petitions villages taxes pilgrimages and shrines decrees quarreling sit-in friendship telegraph power of attorney debts and loans Jews Majlis weather fasts andaruni gardens architecture construction hair ornaments and styles clothing financial matters weapons pillage courts divorce Ottomans Kurds bread and bakeries food stores protests imprisonment Constitutional Revolution animals animal husbandry opium baths and bath accessories death nannies marriage proposal teachers education remuneration automobiles carriages custody of children usurpation tombs and cemeteries weddings funerals and burials mosques taʻziyah entertainers music prayer police rawzah copper parties consulates and embassies orphans widows Ministry of Foreign Affairs Arabs World War I (1914-1918) housing childbirth rites and ceremonies slaves endowments households household furnishings gendarmerie alimony postal service grains Ministry of Interior temporary marriage Ministry of War quarrel and reconciliation poetry rent prostitution gold silver tableware carpets jewels and jewelry mourning tea glassware hookahs kitchenware books banks and banking boxes (containers) photographs promissory notes games medicine miscarriages and abortion Armenians feasts accidents horses and horse riding fruit wills armies schools bazaars charity divination gifts arrest fabrics Hajj railroad trains caravansaries Russians money transfers hunting and fishing testimony lamps costumes tirmah bedding Ministry of Finance suicide hospitals infants Ministry of Justice