Watch Tower History

 Petition card from the Rutherford era.

 Sent by Raymond who regularly provides me with his research finds. These are from the Pittsburgh Commercial of April 5 and 28, 1877. This i...

 As most of my readers know, I'm committed to accuracy, and I've noted on this blog a few points needing correction or elaboration. ...

I scanned one of the pages I'm trying to read. I get the drift, but need a good translation which is beyond my ability. I've done th...

 I read German at the most elementary level. Here is what I have and how I would translate it. Can you improve this? wird er kaufmann und Ge...

Editorial Review of Plan of the Ages by The Churchman , an Episcopalian magazine, November 13, 1886.  Millennial Dawn, Vol. 1. Plan of the...

GREW, MARY, b. Conn., 1813; daughter of Henry Grew, a Baptist clergyman; educated in Catherine E. Beecher's seminary in Hartford. In her...

 

 

 I need to raise an additional eighty dollars to purchase two scarce to rare booklets that I cannot find to download. Can you help?

Die Sekte der Ernsten Bibelforscher by Trarsicius. Paffrath, 1925. This is a Catholic response to German Bible Students. 

 Some considerable time past I posted images of Maria Russell's sermon notebook. A seller of antiquarian diaries and ledgers had it. A f...

  Below is a nice postcard reproduction of an official issue by the British branch of the Bible Students, The headquarters address of Eversh...

Hi everyone, I need originals of the following Watch Towers: Jan. 1, 15; Feb. 1, 15; Mar. 1, 15; April 1, 15, and May 1,  Sep. 15, 1921.  Ju...

 This was a Seventh-day Adventists magazine. It contained the following notice of Zion's Watch Tower in its March 1883 issue: Click the ...

 The April 1892 issue of The Jewish Era quoted these two paragraphs from the December 1891 Zion's Watch Tower: ISRAEL.  Nothing in ou...

 February 1897 issue: You may need to click on the image to see it entire.

 Part of a rather large collection of foreign-language Bible Student and Witness material. See: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?item=2851115...

  Expanded with further research from an article that first appeared on this blog in 2017.           Many readers of this blog will be c...

 ... or page by page photos if it is too fragile to scan.

  Your observations are welcome:             I find this in my reading of Church History that every heresy has had its origin in a desire fo...

 This was taken with a camera. I need a scan done on a flatbed scanner. Speaker and place do not matter, but I need front and back.  I need ...

Guest post by Gary      According to historian Philip Jenkins, in the United States “the most controversial religious group at the start o...

A postcard from Magdeburg from 1926. With grateful thanks to Markus who provided the image.

  I do not anticipate adding to this blog any time soon. It is a rich resource for those interested in Watch Tower history. Many of my curre...

 Apparently no one wants to comment. This is the last time I post material for your review. A bit of SI chapter one for your comment. Chapte...

  I need some research assistance. Barbour's atonement beliefs probably have antecedents in the work of others. I haven't been able ...

 I traded away some really rare-ish booklets for three booklets I need for current research. They belonged to William Morris Wright, a socie...

  On ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/225361500963

 

        Collecting Watch Tower literature for many includes collecting variants of publications. Sometimes changes were made due to refineme...