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Charles Webster Leadbeater

Historical photos

While searching for good photos of CWL, I found some very beautiful historical photos of him from the Surendra Narayan Archives (Adyar Archives). The photos were first published in November 2021 on the website Theosophy Forward. Some of the photos are very rare and had been published very little or not at all until then.

My sincere thanks to the website team for providing the photos! To ensure that they remain available to the world even if the website is no longer online one day, I have included the photos in the archive.

Clicking on the links below opens the photos; right-clicking allows you to download them.

            Picture 1:   CWL as a boy with his mother, Emma North Cumberland

            Picture 2:   CWL as a teenager

            Picture 3:   In Cambridge, he is probably on a boat during an annual boat race there

            Picture 4:   CWL in 1905, location unknown

            Picture 5:   1905, Fritz Kunz, Basil Hodgson and CWL sitting in front of the East Octagonal (River Bungalow) in Adyar

            Picture 6:   1905, CWL  with representatives of the Melbourne Theosophical Society

            Picture 7:   1910, in the Arundale House in Adyar, the Yellow Shawl Group

            Picture 8:   Around 1911, CWL conducts research for a publication; among his researchers is R. Balfour Clarke

            Picture 9:   Most likely 1911, CWL with Dr. Anna Weller, Hubert and Dr. van Hook

            Picture 10:  1912, in Palermo, Italy

            Picture 11:   Nitya, JK, Annie Besant, GSA, CJ and CWL in the Hotel Naumachie, Taormina

            Picture 12:   Eastern 1922, „Malahide“ in the House of the Mackays in Sydney

            Picture 13:  1925, Procession during the international congress in Adyar

            Picture 14:  1930, CWL at the annual meeting of The Order of the Star in Ommen, Netherlands 

            Picture 15:  1930, Annie Besant and CWL in Ommen

            Picture 16:  1930, Annie Besant, CWL, CJ, Wedgewood and others in Ommen

            Picture 17:  1930, CJ, CWL, J. J. van der Leeuw, Rajagopal and Rosalind

            Picture 18:  CWL as a Freemason

            Picture 19:  CWL in his impressive library at The Manor, Sydney, Australien