Provenance:
Acquired by the current vendor at Beaussant Lefèvre, Succession de Son Altesse Impériale la Princess Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, 29-31 May 2002;
Her Imperial Highness Princess Soraya of Iran.

Including an album of colour photographs depicting an official visit to Germany presented to Soraya on the 19th of December 1955 with accompanying box of slides; a further album of the German visit; an album presented to Soraya by Life Magazine on the 19th of May 1958; an album of official photographs taken on a visit to a zoo presented to the Shah by photographer Ali Khadem (1917-910); an album depicting the official visit of Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, presented to the Shah by a photographer from the associated press of Atash News; an album containing photos of the Behesht-e A, the primary school in Isfahan where Soraya was educated before moving to Switzerland in 1946; three further albums of official visits in Iran; an album with photos of an official visit to Turkey with a fold out panorama of Izmir; and an album of photographs taken at a dinner at the Taj Mahal Hotel presented on the 7th of March 1956.

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