1933: American Baha'i Keith Ransom-Kehler burried in Isfahan, Persia

Baha'is of Isfahan gathered about the casket of Keith Ransom-Kehler, October, 1933.

Queen Marie of Romania visits America in 1926

Queen Marie of Romania (second from left) and her royal family with U.S. Secretary of State Frank Kellog (with cane) and her government officials during the Queen's visit to America in 1926 

(Baha'i News, November, 1973)

Places visited by the Báb

circa 1912: Teachers and Iranian Bahai Students at Beirut School

Shoghi Effendi is third from the left in the second row.

January 1898 -- The first Baha'is in Kenosha, Wisconsin

The first eighteen Baha'is in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Kheirall completed his first series of lessons on 1 January 1898 and brought into being the third Baha'i group in North America Byron Lane, the first Baha'i in Kenosha, is seated in the center of the second row 

(‘The Baha'i Faith in America’, by Robert Stockman)

The Most Great Prison as seen in 1907

The Most Great Prison in Akka, Israel. This photo was taken by the late Hand of the Cause, Roy C. Wilhelm in 1907 

(Baha'i News, January 1965)

A small wool money purse which belonged to the Báb

One of the places Baha'u'llah stayed during His period of retirement

Takyiy-i-Mawlana Khalid in Sulaymaniyyih, Iraq, where Baha'u'llah stayed during His period of retirement. 

(The Baha'i World 1932-1934)

Albert Hall - President of Bahai Temple Unity and Chairman of Annual Convention of the Baha’is of the United States and Canada – 1910 to 1914

October 1920: 'Abdu'l-Baha with some pilgrims from California

October 1920, outside the Tomb of the Bab: 'Abdu'l-Baha with some reident believers and pilgrims from California. Front row, seated, left to right: Mirza Ighbal, Emogene Hoagg, Georgia Ralston, Helen Goodall, 'Abdu'l-Baha, Elizabeth Stewart, Ella Cooper, Kathryn Frankland, and Haji Muhammad Yazdani. Saichiro Fujita is standing behind Ella Cooper.

Bahá'u'lláh's House in Tihran

1900 - The Board of Counsel of the Baha'i Assembly of New York City

Seated, left to right: Clement Woolson, Howard Mac Nutt, Arthur P. Dodge, Charles E. Sprague Standing, left to right: Anton F. Haddad (honorary), Frank E. Osborne, Hooper Harris, William H. Hoar, Andrew Hutchinson, Edwin A. Putnam

1910: Delegates and friends in attendance at the first annual conference of the Persian-American Educational Society

1910 - Baha'is in Baku Russia

Shrine of the Bab, terraces, and adjoining buildings

The National Bahá’í Centre of the Bahá’ís of Cuba in Havana, Cuba

(Baha'i Media Bank)

1912: ‘Abdu’l-Baha at Grand Central Station, New York

Auxiliary Board Members in North America, January 1960

Hand of the Cause William Sears with the North American members of the Auxiliary Board of the Hands of the Cause, at their meeting in Wilmette, Ill., on January 9 and 10, 1960. Front row: Velma Sherrill, Katherine McLaughlin, William Sears, Rowland Estall, and Curtis Kelsey. Back row: Hushang Javid, Mildred Muttahedeh, Amoz Gibson, Margery McCormick, William deForge, Sarah Pereira, Peggy Ross, and Florence Mayberry 

(Baha'i News, April 1960)

1958: First NSA on European Continent

First National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of France, elected on April 26, 1958 

(Baha'i News July 1958)

A taj of Bahá’u’lláh displayed in His room at Bahjí

1933: Martha Root and Marion Jack with Governor and Mayor of Adrianople

29 October 1933: Martha Root (front, third from the left) and Marion Jack (front, far right) with Governor and Mayor of Adrianople, Turkey.

The Tomb of Baha'u'llah in the years immediately following His ascension

(The Baha'i World 1932-1934)

First Photograph of the Master after World War I

This photograph was taken by Lieut. H. E. Eckersley in the Garden of Bahji in the latter part of the month of October, 1918. It is the first photograph of the Master after the war.

Agnes Alexander - First Baha’i to set foot on Hawaiian soil; first Baha’i to settle in Japan, and first Baha’i to teach the Faith in Korea

1909: The Baha’is of Baltimore

Inside of the dome of the Local Bahá'í House of Worship in Battambang, Cambodia

Baha’u’llah’s father – Mirza Buzurg

circa 1800: Shimran Gate, Tehran

April 1956: First Regional National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of North West Africa

(Baha'i News August 1956)

1934: First National Convention of the Baha'is of Australia and New Zealand

December 1946: First Canadian Teaching Committee

Standing, left to right: Siegfried Schopflocker, John A Robarts, Victor Davis, Rowland Estall, and Emeric Sala; Seating, left to right: Laura R Davis, and Doris Richardson 

(Baha'i News, no. 192, February, 1947)

1910 - First thirty children attending Tarbiat School in Tehran, Iran

'Akka -- May, 1967

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Akka from the air, looking west over the Mediterranean. Most Great Prison shown in center, Mosque to lower left. Photo taken in May, 1967.

Jamal Effendi - The spiritual father of India and Burma -- the first Baha'i teacher sent to India and Burma by Baha'u'llah in 1875

Sulayman Khan Ilyas, Jamal Effendi

Pocket Qur'an of the Báb

1915: First Photo of Baha'is in Japan

July 1915 - The first photograph of Baha'is of Japan with Martha Root and Agnes Alexander. Mr Fukuta, the first Japanese to accept the Faith in Japan, is seated front row, far left, next to Martha Root. Agnes Alexander is second from left in the back row.

The Greatest Holy Leaf, Munirih Khanum and her four daughters

The Middle row, those sitting on chairs, left to right: Munawar and Touba (daughters of ‘Abdu’l-Baha and Munirih Khanum), the Greatest Holy Leaf, Munirih Khanum (wife of ‘Abdu’l-Baha), Diya’iyyih (daughter of ‘Abdu’l-Baha and Munirih Khanum, mother of Shoghi Effendi), and Ruha (daughter of ‘Abdu’l-Baha and Munirih Khanum). The other ladies in the picture are pilgrims and believers from Haifa-Akka area.

Entrance to Bahá’u’lláh's ancestral House in Takur, Iran

Baha'i Shrine in Montreal, Canada

'Abdu’l-Bahá stayed in this home during his six-day visit to Montréal.

(Baha'i Media Bank)

First National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Iran, 1934-1935

Baha'i Faith on Singapore stamps

In commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of Singapore's Inter-Religious Organization, a body formed to promote peace, understanding and good will among people of different faiths, three specially-designed stamps were issued in January 1999, depicting nine of the major religions in Singapore. The Baha'i Faith was honored through its inclusion.

(The Baha'i World, 1998-99)

Believers assembled at the Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel, 1910

The person marked x at the center of the group is the aged Afnan who supervised the building of Mashriqu'l-Adhkar in Ishkabad, Russia. As soon as it was finished he was called to Acca by 'Abdu'l-Baha to remain the balance of his days.

November 19, 2017 - Believers of Spokane, Washington holding a unity Feast in a suburb of their city -- 1910

Tehran 1910: American believer Dr. Moody and some Persian Baha'i doctors at a newly established hospital in Tehran

Mount Carmel as it appeared to the first American pilgrims in 1898

Mount Carmel as it appeared to the first American pilgrims to visit 'Abdu'l-Baha in 1898. The building at the foot and on the left marks the place where Elijah, the Prophet, found shelter. On the summit is a convent. 

(Baha'i News, December 1971)

1969: Hands of the Cause of God Enoch Olinga and Dr. Rahmatu'llah Muhajir

Lagos, Nigeria, October 9, 1969

A calligraphic artwork by prominent Baha'i Mishkin-Qalam