5/30/10

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.

5/22/10

1914 -- First & Second group photographs taken of 'Abdu'l-Baha in the Holy Land

'Abdu'l-Baha with some pilgrims and resident Baha'is gathered at the Shrine of the Bab on Mount Carmel. Shoghi Effendi is in the second row, wearing a white scarf, behind the elderly Haji Haydar-'Ali.
Jewish, Zoroastrian, and Muslim background Baha'i pilgrims along with some resident Bahais in the presence of 'Abdu'l-Baha in front of His house in Haifa, 1914