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  Badische Anilin & Soda-Fabrik dye label with indigo dye workers

  • Circa 1900

  Dye label depicting male laborers dyeing fabrics in a setting reminiscent of Islamic architecture. The racially stereotyped illustration evokes Persian indigo dye workers in Iran, where indigo dye was utilized for…

  • Publisher Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik
  • Subject Dye industry, Printed ephemera, Iran, Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik, Dyes and dyeing, Indigo, Advertising, Indigo industry, Stereotypes (Social psychology), Racism against Asians
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  Postage stamps

  Postage stamp commemorating the 5th Biennial Symposium of the Iranian Biochemical Society

  • 1975

  Stamp depicts a generic formula for an amino acid where R stands for "radical." In organic chemistry, this nomenclature represents the possibility of any one of a series of aliphatic groups, like methyl, ethyl, propyl,…

  • Subject Postage stamps, Iran, Iranian Biochemical Society, Commemorative postage stamps, Science on postage stamps, Science--Societies, etc.
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  Postage stamps

  Iranian postage stamp commemorating the 1100th birthday of Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Rāzī (Rhazes)

  • 1964

  Depicts Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Rāzī (also known as Rhazes), a Persian polymath, physician, alchemist, and philosopher.

  • Subject Postage stamps, Muslim scholars, Medicine, Persian, Iran, Rhazes, Commemorative postage stamps, Philosophers, Science on postage stamps, Physicians, Alchemy