December 31, 2011

Louis Bourgeois -- famous architect of the Mother Temple of the West

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Louis Bourgeois
December 29, 2011

Effie Baker

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Effie Baker , a Melbourne Baha'i who traveled through Australia and New Zealand in 1924 with Martha Root. A message from the Guar...
December 28, 2011

Hidayatu'llah Dihqani -- a Baha'i martyr

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Hidayatu'llah Dihqani, executed in Shiraz, Iran, on March 17, 1981
December 19, 2011

Dr. John Esslemont, Hand of the Cause of God

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Dr. John Esslemont
December 11, 2011

Siyyid Mustafa Rumi, Hand of the Cause of God

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Siyyid Mustafa Rumi Siyyid Mustafa Rumi of Burma, named by the Guardian as one of the Hands of the Cause of Baha’u’llah, contributed ...
December 10, 2011

Lua Getsinger -- “The immortal Lua, mother-teacher of the American Bahá'í Community, herald of the dawn of the Day of the Covenant …” (Shoghi Effendi, Messages to America), a Disciple of 'Abdu'l-Baha

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Lua(Louisa) Moore Getsinger Lua, studio portrait taken in the blue costume she had made for the numerous occasions when she was requir...
December 6, 2011

Dr. Auguste Forel

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Dr. Auguste Forel, distinguished scientist, scholar and humanitarian
December 3, 2011

Mountfort Mills and Fujita San

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Mountfort Mills of New York and London, international lawyer and distinguished Baha'i who has represented the Baha'i Cause at Gen...
November 26, 2011

Her Majesty Queen of Rumania

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Her Majesty Queen of Rumania From an autographed photograph presented to Martha Root
November 25, 2011

Haji Amin -- Apostle of Baha'u'llah, Hand of the Cause, the Trustee of Huququ'lláh

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Hand of the Cause Mulla Abu'l-Hasan-i-Ardikani, surnamed Amin, Apostle of Baha'u'llah, the Trustee of Huququ'lláh Mulla...
November 24, 2011

Sarah Farmer -- Founder of Green Acre

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Sarah Farmer Sarah Farmer was one of America's early religious innovators. She owned the Green Acre Inn in Eliot, Maine, and ...
November 12, 2011

Lady Sara Louise Blomfield – Sitarih Khanum

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Lady Sara Louise Blomfield – Sitarih Khanum Prominent British Baha'i, named Sitarih ('star') Khanum by 'Abdu'l-Ba...
November 5, 2011

Roy C. Wilhelm and his parents

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Roy  C. Wilhelm and his parents
October 29, 2011

Robert Turner -- One of the 19 Disciples of 'Abdu'l-Baha and the first member of the negro race in the Western Hemisphere to embrace the Faith

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Robert Turner Born on October 15, 1855 or 1856, he was the first member of the negro race in the Western Hemisphere to embrace the Fai...
October 9, 2011

Dr. Susan Moody and Elizabeth Stewart

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Dr. Susan Moody (left) with Elizabeth Stewart, the faithful Baha'i nurse who served with Dr. Moody in Tihran, Persia for many years. ...
August 7, 2011

Varqa and his son Ruhu'llah, in prison before their martyrdom

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Varqa and his son Ruhu'llah
July 31, 2011

Rafieh Mansour -- patient handmaiden of God

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Rafieh Mansour In 1889, when Rafieh was three years old, her family had the joy of being invited by Baha'u'llah to move to the ...
July 24, 2011

Kanichi Yamamoto: the world's first Japanese believer

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Kanichi Yamamoto: the world's first Japanese believer (Baha'i News July 1977)
July 23, 2011

Howard Colby Ives - the outstanding promoter of the Faith

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Howard Colby Ives Mable and Howard Ives
July 17, 2011

Jimmy Seals and Dash Crofts

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Jimmy Seals and Dash Crofts
July 16, 2011

May Bolles Maxwell and daughter Mary

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May Bolles Maxwell and daughter Mary May Bolles Maxwell was one of that first group of pilgrims from the West who, in 1898-99, visit...
July 10, 2011

Hand of the Cause Corinne True and her daughters

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Hand of the Cause Corinne True and her daughters at the time of the dedication of the House of Worship in Chicago on May 1, 1953. From le...
May 30, 2011

Hands of the Cause Adelbert Muhlschlegel and Hasan Balyuzi

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Adelbert Muhlschlegel and Hasan Balyuzi
May 28, 2011

Stem Salle - the first believer of Truk islands, 1973

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Stem Salle with his wife and children
May 26, 2011

Hand of the Cause Enoch Olinga with members of his family

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Hand of the Cause Enoch Olinga (second from left) with members of his family; to his left, his daughter, Florence, a student at Toror...
May 22, 2011

Mustafa Baghdadi

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Mustafa Baghdadi Mustafa Baghdadi lived for many years In Beirut, Syria. He was one of the earliest followers of the Báb and Bahá’u’l...
May 21, 2011

Martha Root - "Herald of the Kingdom"; “the foremost Hand raised by Bahá'u'lláh since 'Abdu'l-Bahá's passing”; “the first, finest fruit which the Formative Age of the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh has as yet produced”; “that archetype of Bahá'í itinerant teachers”

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Martha Root Martha's unnumbered admirers throughout Bahá'í world lament with me the earthly extinction of her heroic life. Co...
May 3, 2011

Fujita Saichiro

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Fujita in Haifa, circa 1928  Fujita at Chicago Temple in 1971
April 30, 2011

Nettie Tobin & the "corner stone" for Chicago Temple

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Nettie Tobin kneeling by the stone which she carried as her contribution to the Chicago Temple in the very early days. 'Abdu'l-Ba...
April 27, 2011

Ruhiyyih Khanum with her little namesake

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Ruhiyyih Khanum with her little namesake, Cameroon 1972