Collection # 1

• 1927 -- First time delegates from nine leading provinces of Persia convened a conference 
• 1934 -- First National Convention of the Baha'is of Australia and New Zealand (photo)
• 1948: Dr. Ugo Giachery is appointed by the Guardian as his personal representative for all the work in Italy associated with the erection of the superstructure of the Shrine of the Bab on Mr. Carmel
• ‘Abdu’l-Baha Hosted a Unity Feast in West Englewood, New Jersey, USA
• 'Abdu'l-Baha recognized Baha'u'llah when He was only 9 years old
• Amazing growth with respect to the administrative order of the Faith
• An example of God’s wrath when followers of a religion became totally attached to dogmas and blind imitations and gave up the essential foundation and reality of their religion
• Baha’i Magazines in circulation in 1923
• Baha’i Summer Schools Originated in America
• Baha’u’llah Released from Siyah-Chal
• Baha’u’llah rented a house in Baghdad
• Baha’u’llah Reveals the Station of ‘Abdu’l-Baha – the Suriy-i-Ghusn (Surih of the Branch)
• Baha’u’llah’s Ancestral Place
• Baha’u’llah’s Parents
• “Bahá'u'lláh upraised the standard of His Cause in prison ... -- a prisoner and an exile advancing His Cause and spreading His teachings broadcast so that eventually He became powerful enough to conquer the very king who banished Him.”
• Baha'i Faith on Singapore's stamps
• Baha'u'llah and Asiyih Khanum's wedding
• Baha'u'llah's Lineage
• Baha'u'llah's Vision
• Circa May 1922 – Shoghi Effendi left for a time the affairs of the Cause both at home and abroad in the hands of Bahiyyih Khanum
• Disciples of Abdu'l-Baha -- "Heralds of the Covenant" - identifed by the Guardian (photo)
• Exceptionally cold weather during which Baha’u’llah and His Family were exiled to Adrianople
• Fate of Those Who Persecuted the Bab, Who Opposed the Construction of His Shrine and Threatened Its Destruction
• First Canadian National Spiritual Assembly -- Elected in 1948 (photo)
• First Canadian Teaching Committee, December 1946 (photo)
• First National Convention of the Baha'is of Iran, 1934 (photo)
• First NSA of Iran was elected in 1934 (photo)
• First Public Reference to the Faith in North America
• Green Acre in Eliot, Main, USA becomes one of the first Baha’i summer schools in the Western Hemisphere
• History of Philosophers Prior to Alexander of Greece
• July 1915 -- First Photo of Baha'is in Japan (photo)
• Khadijih Bagum & Asiyih Khanum were born in the same year
• May 1st, 1912 -- ‘Abdu’l-Baha lays the cornerstone of the Mashriqu’l-Adhkar in Wilmette
• Mid-July 1920: Shoghi Effendi arrived in the United Kingdom
• Mirza Husayn-Ali Nuri Became Known as Baha
• Mulla Husayn's sword
• Nabil the author of Dawn-Breakers
• National Spiritual Assemblies as of 1925
• Nov. 27, 1924 -- The Guardian approved suggestion by Horace Holley to create Baha’i Year Books
• November 26th – Day of the Covenant
• Permission Requested for Construction of Temple
• Possibly the first fruit of Baha’u’llah’s Divine Pen and the only preserved Tablet revealed in Iran: -- The Poem of Rashh-i-'Ama [The Mist of Unknown]
• Ruhiyyih Khanum’s links with Africa
• September 1867-August 1868: the most momentous Tablet of Baha’u’llah, The Suriy-i-Mulúk (the Surih of the Kings) was revealed in Adrianople
• Shoghi Effendi – ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s Eldest Grandson & His Chief Secretary
• Shoghi Effendi's birth
• Some prominent western non-Baha’is who hosted receptions for ‘Abdu’l-Baha
• Successive Stages in the Transfer of the Remains of the Bab from Persia to the Holy Land and the Erection of His Mausoleum on Mount Carmel
• Symbolic representation of the stages in the Administrative Order by means of a monument designed by Shoghi Effendi (photo)
• The Bab’s Imprisonment in the Fortress of Chihriq
• The Bab's pilgrimage to Mecca
• The Doors to the Shrine of the Báb – Named after Eminent Believers
• The First Baha’i Center in Europe Was Formed in 1898 (photo)
• The First Disciple of the Bab Martyred at Fort Tabarsi on February 2nd, 1849
• The Garden of Ridvan (photo)
• The Guardian’s first letter inserted in the first issue of the Baha’i News, December 1924 (then called Baha’i News Letter)
• The Marriage of ‘Abdu’l-Baha
• The National Spiritual Assembly of the United States 1939 (photo)
• Women in Nineteenth-Century Iran
• Years 1843-1844 Were a Time of Great Expectation Worldwide