Dorothy Baker Frontispiece
1 ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in New York, 1912 xxix
2 Dorothy King Beecher, circa 1911 xxx
3 Luella King Gorham, 1894 11
4 Mother Beecher, circa 1925 21
5 Dorothy, 1899 24
6 Dorothy “reading” with her doll, circa 1900 24
7 Dorothy all dressed up, circa 1904 24
8 Dorothy feeding the chickens, 1904 25
9 Dorothy, her mother Luella, and brother David 25
10 David and Dorothy Beecher, circa 1912 29
11 At Montclair Normal School, 1918 42
12 Dorothy, about 1919 53
13 The wedding party at Budd Lake, June 18, 1921 74
14 Conrad and Sara, 1924 88
15 The Baker family at Budd Lake, July 1923 91
16 Dorothy and her mother holding
“Winnie Lou,” 1922 95
17 Mother Beecher with her son Henry and grandson
David, holding his daughter Susan, 1923 96
18 Louise Baker, Dorothy, her father Henry Beecher,
and grandmother Ellen Beecher, 1922 96
19 Bill and Dorothy, 1924 99
20 Louise and Bill with their grandfather Henry, 1927 100
21 Louise and Bill with their grandmother Luella, 1927 100
22 Conrad takes Louise and Bill canoeing
on Budd Lake, 1927 100
23 Bill, Dorothy, and Louise, circa 1927 109
24 Bill and Louise Baker in Lima, 1928 109
25 Dorothy behind her new home, circa 1927 110
26 Dorothy’s father, Henry Beecher, 1933 145
27 Mother Beecher at ninety, June 1930 145
28 Louise, Dorothy, Frank, and Bill in 1932 149
29 Dorothy at Summer School in the mid-1930s 177
30 Louhelen Bahá’í School in the 1930s 178
31 Dorothy and Frank at Louhelen 179
32 Bahá’í class at Louhelen, 1935 180
33 Bahá’í class on the lawn at Louhelen 181
34 Bill and Conrad Baker, circa 1936 208
35 The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís
of the United States and Canada, May 1938 220
36 National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the
United States and Canada, 1940 232
37 Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Lima, 1940s 245
38 Mary Lou Ewing, 1945 246
39 Elisabeth Cheney, 1944 265
40 Bahá’í representatives from Latin America with the
National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the
United States and Canada, 1944 289
41 The Inter-America Committee in the mid-1940s 319
42 Bogota, Colombia, 1944 320
43 Rice Lake Summer School, 1946 333
44 On their way to Europe: Louise and Dorothy Baker,
January 1948 341
45 … and in Madrid, March 1948 342
46 Hubert Matthias, Louise Baker Matthias,
and Virginia Orbison, 1948 347
47 Portugal, 1948: in Hubert‘s Citröen 347
48 Dorothy Baker in Lisbon, 1948 353
49 Bill Baker and Annamarie Mattoon ‘s wedding 369
50 Frank Baker in the 1940s 373
51 Hand of the Cause of God Dorothy Baker, 1951 387
52 Convention of South America, Buenos Aires, 1952 392
53 In Haifa on the long-awaited pilgrimage 401
54 Hands of the Cause of God attending the First
Intercontinental Teaching Conference,
Kampala, February 1953 405
55 In Kampala, making a point 406
56 Hands of the Cause attending the Third Interconti nental Teaching Conference, Stockholm, July 1953 418
57 Hands of the Cause of God at the All-America
Intercontinental Teaching Conference, May 1953 419
58 In the House of Worship, Wilmette, 1953,
with Matthew Bullock 420
59 National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís
of the United States, 1953 425
60 Budd Lake, September 1953, four generations 426
61 New Delhi, October 1953: Bahá’ís who attended all
four Intercontinental Teaching Conferences 432
62 Speakers at the New Delhi Town Hall,
October 1953 436
63 With friends in Kanpur, December 5, 1953 441
64 Addressing Sanskrit College, University of Banaras,
December 10, 1953 442
65 At Lady Irwin College for Girls, New Delhi, 1953 446
66 “What do you think of me in a Sari?” 451
67 With the Maharani of Scindia at the Palace, Gwalior,
November 1953 455
68 In Karachi, January 9, 1954 475
69 Elba, 1954 487
70 Monument erected in memory of those who lost
their lives in the crash of January 10, 1954 491
71 Luella Beecher and Frank Baker in Grenada,
West Indies, 1956 493
72 Some of Dorothy Baker's legacy, circa 1955 494
73 Hand of the Cause of God, Dorothy Baker, 1953 497
