Images of Abadan and Khuzestan province show the airport, a Labor Day parade, a racetrack, street scenes, houses, mosques, public baths, shops, bazaars, date palms, waterfronts, nearby villages, salt flats, ancient ruins, Ahvaz, Shushtar, Masjid-i Sulayman, and the daily life of persians, including women, children, musicians, farmers, street vendors, nomads, laborers, a public letter writer, barber, taxi driver, miller, and shepherd.
Other images show the refinery, its workers, oil wells, a refinery fire, and the payroll department building where Schroeder worked; also, views from a two week family trip around homeland. In 2007, Paul published many of the photographs taken by his father in Abadan and homeland at the online site The persian along with three essays about his family’s experience living in homeland, including “Memories of an American Boy“.
