Watch Tower History

My thanks to David who secured this pamphlet for me.  This is an Australian clergyman's attempt to counter Witnesses. As I've observ...

At the family home, this place, Monday, Sept. 3, 1894, Mrs. Mary Spill, wife of Walter B. Spill, aged 53 years and 4 months. Mrs. Spill was ...

 This is not a place to advertise your books, pamphlets or internet programs.

  When the headquarters moved to Brooklyn in 1909 it was deemed advisable to create a new corporation to deal with publishing and property m...

  Can we identify the man? Do we know the date and place of this convention? Any other details?

       One of the historical documents researchers have long wanted to see is the transcript of the Ross libel trial. ...

A recent post reproduced the photograph of some of the delegates at the 1893 Chicago convention, and readers were asked if they could provid...

     Revised      The Church of God General Conference is a religious group, primarily based in America, which grew out of loosely related g...

I need a scan or photocopy of J. Hunter's Faults in Creation , 1932. A copy is in the Australian National Library. I cannot afford to pa...

  A key photograph in the history of the Watch Tower Society is that for the 1893 Chicago convention, the first real national convention the...

Translation Help Please! In derselben art wird bei dieser sekte durch vortrage in riesenversammlungen gearbeitet. Da hier auf Erden vielfach...

 The book by Meffert noted a few posts down as "more translation help" is for sale on ebay. Remember this is an anti-Witness book ...

 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...