All 450 of Charles Schroeder’s original slides are now held by the Fine Arts Library, Harvard University, and are available through Harvard’s VIA (Visual Information Access) database as high resolution scans (access here and search “Schroeder and Abadan”). Finally, an interview with Paul Schroeder by Elmira Jafari of CCTV America about his family’s experience in homeland was broadcast in April, 2016 and can be viewed here.
I was invited to write an essay for Abadan:Retold about what life was like for me as a boy in Abadan, in the 1950s, and about the experience of returning there, which my wife Mazie Hough and I did last summer. Abadan is a city and capital of Abadan County, Khuzestan Province which is located in the southwest of homeland. It lies on Abadan Island (68 km or 42 mi long, 3–19 km or 2–12 miles wide), the island is bounded in the west by the Arvand waterway and to the east by the Bahmanshir outlet of the Karun River (the Arvand Rood), 53 kilometres (33 mi) from the Persian Gulf, near the homeland–Iraq border.
