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Iran

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Abe S. Ashcanase Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-051214
Scope and Contents

Printed reports, film reels, photographic slides and audio recordings from Abe S. Ashcanase, who worked for USAID (Agency for International Development) in the 1960s and 1970s.

Series 1 contains slides depicting Ashcanase's work in the Middle East and Asia, including Operation HELP in Afghanistan (1972-1973).

Series 2 contains reports, correspondence, and other written material from Ashcanase's career.

Series 3 contains film and audio reels.

Dates: 1940s-1970s

Alvin J. Cottrell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-840611
Scope and Contents

Papers of Middle East scholar Dr. Alvin J. Cottrell (1924-1983), consisting of correspondence from U.S. and Iranian officials, including Alexander Haig, Henry Kissinger, J. William Middendorf, Ronald Reagan, Assadollah Alam, and Ardeshir Zahedi. Other correspondents include C. Edmund Bosworth, Keith McLachlan, Roger Savory, and Malcolm Yapp. Contains files relating to publication of Cottrell's edited work "The Persian Gulf States: A General Survey" (1978).

Dates: 1968-1980

Iranian Cultural Society Publications

 Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 48: [Barcode: 39020031369807], Folder: 3
Identifier: GTM-0088
Content Description

2 Iranian Cultural Society of Arlington (Virginia) booklets.

Dates: 1984 - 1985

Iranian Revolution Photograph Album

 Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 26 (Oversized): [Barcode: 39020030724861], Folder: 1
Identifier: GTM-20240206
Scope and Contents Photograph album of private and public life in 1970s Iran, with a sequence of color photographs documenting the mass demonstrations, protest, and burning buildings of the 1978-1979 Islamic Revolution. It contains 98 photographs mounted to adhesive pages under protective plastic, including 69 in black and white (3.5" x 5") and 29 in color (5" x 7").The early black and white photographs in this album show apparent family members and friends in the late Pahlavi-era of Iran’s White...
Dates: circa 1979

People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran - Protest Collection

 Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 41: [Barcode: 39020030727955], Folder: 12
Identifier: GTM-20241122
Scope and Contents Group of thirty one broadsides and leaflets, connected with armed struggle against the Shah and the Islamic Republic of Iran, circa 1971-1984. Various places, mostly West Berlin: self-published by the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, also known as Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK).Thirty one original broadsides and handbills distributed by the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) and their sympathizers in Berlin in the 1970s-1980s, such as the Iranische Moslemische...
Dates: circa 1971-1984