Bita Ameri
Collection of family photographs, and legal and financial documents including marriage contracts, sales and settlements, endowments, leases, invoices, and letters of Ghulam Husayn ‘Amiri to Qamar al-Muluk ‘Amiri
Collection Highlights
Collection Details
- Dates Mid-19th to mid-20th century
- Date Acquired April 20, 2017
- Last Edited 28 June 2019
- Record Number 17201
- Genres correspondence writings sales & settlements legal & financial leases marriage contracts powers of attorney testimony petitions genealogies endowments photographs embroidery objects audio files
- Subjects husband and wife letter writing weddings illness travel fasts money jewels and jewelry divination food mediation gardens wine animals carriages promissory notes remuneration children households construction grains servants bread and bakeries telegraph childbirth pregnancy drugs medicine fruit housing rawzah religious objects boxes (containers) perfumes quarreling sewing marriage death music fabrics receipts weapons hats hygiene charity opium tea crime kitchenware hunting and fishing slaves bedding agriculture politics and government stores ʻAshura taʻziyah petitions water and irrigation qanats debts and loans property and property management Constitutional Revolution siblings marriage proposal telephone advice Zoroastrians press education famines taxes breast feeding illicit sex schools gifts feasts peasants baths and bath accessories clothing flowers carpets cooking arrest tableware nannies bags (containers) veils parties eyeglasses household furnishings spices cosmetics shoes mirrors weather embroidery photographs Ministry of Culture inheritance villages rent mahr copper gold custody of children mosques pilgrimages and shrines funerals and burials power of attorney caravansaries temporary marriage endowments testimony alimony divorce fuel financial matters tobacco poetry banks and banking Ministry of Finance Ministry of Interior money transfers Qur’an lamps hookahs tombs and cemeteries group portraits hair ornaments and styles architecture portraits infants
