Watch Tower History

 We owe our thanks to Brother S for the images.

 

  This needs verification or refutation.  After a failed prediction general among Advent Christians that Christ would come in 1885, most p...

 From the Kenosha, Wisconsin, Telegraph. 1875.

      Some may have seen this photograph before. It has been published in the past in glorious monochrome with permission from Tower Arc...

      Those with long memories may remember that one of the Russell family’s business ventures was in music publishing. The full story of Th...

This might help  

       In 1914 what came to be known as The Great War and later World War 1 started. Also, according to the Bible Students, the epoch know...

 I need all the newspaper references to the debate you can uncover. Please. This will help immensely. 

 

 

While outside of the regular time frame for this blog, the information below might be of interest to some. In the 1930s and early 1940s Je...

  The Aurora Convention was held over August 8-13, 1917 at Fox River Park, Aurora, Illinois. This candid snapshot of a car with the cross an...

My thanks to Tom S. for sharing. You may need to click on the image to see it in its entirety. 

Sent by Liam C. AN EXPLANATION.             Mr. Hollister of the Millenial Dawn Society states that we published “a slanderous statement ”...

 Sent by Liam C. to whom we owe our thanks. “Millennial Dawn”              I have been requested to say a little to you concerning the her...

 On ebay. Not mine, but I wish they were.

  The Christian Movement in the Japanese Empire Including Korea and Formosa. A Year Book for 1916. Korea             The Government Gene...

  With thanks to Leroy and AI (artificial intelligence), here are the 1919 convention speakers as you may not have seen them before. Click o...

Currently on ebay for more money than I can spare. Enjoy:

 We traveled to the 1953 Convention via auto, an old 1939 Packard that got us there and back, but died the day we returned home. We stayed i...

      One edition of Studies in the Scriptures that is particularly collectable is the 7 th volume The Finished Mystery in its printings f...

 Another amazing image from Tom S.'s amazing archive. 

 Our thanks to Tom S. and Raymond S. for these images. The first is a rare handbill from 1917. The following is from July 20, 1913. A newspa...

Guest post by Liam C. Part 1 of 2      Many readers of this blog who are interested in Bible Student History and who like me spend too m...