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‘Abdu’l-Bahá with Children of Ali-Kuli and Florence Breed Khan in Khan home in Washington D.C.

April 24, 1912
'Abdu'l-Baha with Children of Ali-Kuli and Florence Breed Khan in Khan home in Washington D.C.
Washington, DC

‘Abdu’l-Bahá seated with Marzieh Khan, Hamideh Khan and Rahim Khan in the Washington D.C. home of ‘Ali Kuli Khan and Florence Breed Khan. ‘Ali Kuli Khan was then serving as the Persian charge d’affaires in Washington. (Note: the lower right corner of the picture frame contains some Farsi script.)

Vignette: A Photograph With Abdu'l-Baha

A Photograph With Abdu'l-Baha

Washington, D.C. DC

Ali Kuli Khan, a Bahá’í from Persia [now Iran] was the charge d’affaires at the Persian Embassy in Washington, D.C. in 1912. Married to an American, Florence Breed Khan, theirs was the first Persian-American Bahá’í marriage. Florence asked ‘Abdu’l-Bahá if He would consent to a photograph with the Khan children, and He assented. The Khans’ daughter Marzieh, the little girl on the left of the photo, when a grown woman wrote the following:

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