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Place Yazd, Iran

1. EAP1014/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1014/1
Title:
Arbab Mehraban Poulad’s Archive
Scope & Content:
The archival material includes 11 Avestan manuscripts (five Videvdāds, four Yasnās, one Vajyašt Gahanbār with Doruns and one Xorde Avesta), with a total of more than 8000 pages and more than 15,000 of dated historical, economic, and legal documents regarding the religious minority of Zoroastrian...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Avestan, Pahlavi, and Persian
Date Range:
17th century-20th century
Extent:
4627 TIFF images

2. EAP1014/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1014/2
Title:
Historical Documents
Scope & Content:
This house belongs today to Mehrabān Poulādī, the grandson of Arbāb Mehrabān Poulād. Mehrabān Poulādī is the vice president of the Council of Iranian Mobeds. His Grandfather, Arbāb Mehrabān Poulād was an influential Zoroastrian merchant from a priest family. He founded the Mazdyasnā trading comp...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English, Gujarati, Persian, and Zoroastrian Dari
Date Range:
16 Jul 1831-1 May 1896
Extent:
3186 TIFF images

3. EAP1014/2/11

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1014/2/11
Title:
Business letters from or to Yazd
Scope & Content:
This folder contains business letters were sent from or to Yazd, mostly to the firm of Arbāb Mehrabān Poulād. Custodial history: This collection of documents belongs to Arbab Mehraban Poulad, who had accumulated and archived his own documents as well as the documents of his father and grandfath...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1907-1935
Extent:
98 TIFF images

4. EAP1014/2/26

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1014/2/26
Title:
Mazdyasn trading company and migration to Khuzestan
Scope & Content:
This folder contains documents regarding foundation of Mazdyasn firm and its activities, as well as letters and documents regarding migration of a group of Zoroastrians from Yazd to Khuzestan. Custodial history: This collection of documents belongs to Arbab Mehraban Poulad, who had accumulated ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1928-1930
Extent:
80 TIFF images

5. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/1
Title:
‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’
Scope & Content:
The third of four volumes comprising a Gazetteer of Persia. The volume, which is marked Confidential, covers Fārs, Lūristān [Lorestān], Arabistān, Khūzistān [Khūzestān], Yazd, Karmānshāh [Kermānshāh], Ardalān, and Kurdistān. The frontispiece states that the volume was revised and updated in Apri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1885
Extent:

1 volume (336 folios)

6. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/6/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/6/2
Title:
'MILITARY REPORT ON PERSIA. VOL. IV, PART II.'
Scope & Content:
The volume is entitled Military Report on Persia. Volume IV Part II. Fars, Gulf Ports, Yazd and Laristan. (Simla, Government of India Press, 1924). The volume was originally published in 1923. The report contains sections on history, geography, population, climate and health, resources, militar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1922-1924
Extent:
1 volume (102 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/20/C201/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C201/2
Title:
‘Military report on Persia. Vol IV, part II. Fars, Gulf ports, Yazd and Laristan.’
Scope & Content:
Military report on Persia (volume IV, part II) covering Fars, Yazd, the Gulf ports and Laristan, dated 1922, and published by the Central Government Press at Simla in 1924. The report’s chapters cover: History, including a recent political history of Persia; military history; the Anglo-Persia Wa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1924
Extent:

103 folios

8. Photo 1348

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1348
Title:
Postcard views of Yazd, Iran. Photographer: A. R. Moeinfar
Scope & Content:
Collection of 25 coloured postcards of Yazd, principally of architectural subjects.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 2010
Extent:
25 items