Samila Amir Ebrahimi

A collection of objects, family photographs and an album, a birth certificate and family letters.

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Collection Highlights

Masirrat al-Saltanah on sick bed

Amir Khan, ʻAziz Jan, Mansurah

Masirrat al-Saltanah and Iʻtizad Divan

Family portrait and a letter from ʻAziz Jan to Mansurah

Fatimah Sultan

Mansurah

Collection Details

Dates Late-19th/early-20th century
Date Acquired December 31, 2011
Last Edited 19 January 2018
Record Number 1251

Genres correspondence photographs legal & financial birth and death records objects writings albums marriage contracts audio files interviews
Subjects humor and satire letter writing advice clothing group portraits veils portraits birth records children hair ornaments and styles shoes bags (containers) cosmetics fabrics sewing divorce animals architecture siblings eyeglasses flowers gardens household furnishings husband and wife infants military uniforms photographs tablecloths tableware money silver jewels and jewelry tea carpets kitchenware hats water and irrigation consulates and embassies politics and government hospitals hookahs students bedding servants ʻAshura housing construction horses and horse riding carriages mahr marriage passports travel accidents airplanes Arabic language Armenians automobiles dance death education fasts feasts financial matters French language friendship funerals and burials illness love marriage proposal medicine memoirs miscarriages and abortion music nannies opium parties pilgrimages and shrines plays and theater prayer press Qur’an schools travelogues weddings women's rights

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