March 25, 2012

Elizabeth Stewart -- Baha'i American nurse resident in Tihran, Persia, for many years

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Elizabeth Stewart  Elizabeth first heard of the Baha'i Movement in 1899 from her aunt M Isabella D. Brittingham, a Baha'i teach...
March 20, 2012

Lydia Zamenhof

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Lydia Zamenhof, youngest daughter of Dr. Ludwig Zamenhof,  creator of the Esperanto language
March 15, 2012

Dizzy Gillespie

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J azz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie shows his great pleasure during a tribute September 16, 1985, by the Baha'is of Los Angeles honoring ...
March 10, 2012

Ruya Ishraghi and parents -- three Baha'i martyrs

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Twenty-two-year old university student Ruya Ishraghi (right) with her father, Enayatu'llah Ishraghi, a retired oil company executive,...
March 1, 2012

Eskil Ljungberg, a Knight of Baha'u'llah

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Eskil Ljungberg, a Knight of Baha'u'llah in the Faroe Islands  (Baha'i News, February 1985)
February 25, 2012

G.G. Paul - first translator of Baha'i Writings into Maori

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G.G. Paul, first translator of Baha'i Writings into Maori  (The Baha'i World 1932-1934)
February 18, 2012

Florence Evelyn Schopflocher

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Florence Evelyn Schopflocher She undertook travel teaching trips to Far East in 1920's. Landing in Bengazi, Africa, in the Li...
February 14, 2012

Hands of the Cause of God 'Ali-Akbar Furutan and John Robarts

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Hands of th Cause of God 'Ali-Akbar Furutan (left) and John Robarts embrace before addressing the International Youth Conference in C...
February 8, 2012

Pauline and Joseph Hannen

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Pauline and Joseph Hannen, early Baha'is of Washington, D.C. They natured Louis Gregory's interest in the Baha'i Faith.
February 4, 2012

Mirza Abu'l-Fadl -- an Apostle of Baha’u’llah

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Mirza Abu'l-Fadl
February 1, 2012

Dr. Susan Moody --Amatu’l-A’la (The Handmaid of the Most High), who “forged first link in (the) chain uniting (the) spiritual destinies” of Persia and the American Baha’i Community

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Dr. Susan I. Moody Cable from Shoghi Effendi on October 31, 1934: Passing dearly beloved Susan Moody deprives Baha’i world (of th...
January 27, 2012

Zia and Zinat Baghdadi

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Dr. Zia Baghdadi with his newly wed wife Zinat
January 25, 2012

Juliet Thompson and May Maxwell

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Juliet Thompson(left) and May Maxwell
January 22, 2012

Antonio Cruz, first Baha'i of the Totonaco tribe in Veracruz, Mexica

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Antonio Cruz, first Baha'i of the Totonaco tribe in Veracruz, Mexica (wearing traditional dress)  (The Baha'i World 1979-1083) ...
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