Watch Tower History

  As of today, the all time visits to this blog stand at about 1, 035, 000. 

 Thanks to a friend of this blog, the handbill for Russell's speech in Japan. Click on the image to see it entire. 

       In 1948 Jimmie Skinner wrote the song Doin’ my Time .      The version I remember went:      Doin’ my time      With a ball and...

UPDATED I'm reluctant to point my readers to poorly researched, often opposition, web sites. Yet, the most pointed complaint form academ...

Click on the youtube link to view it entire.  

Last May was this blog's seventeenth anniversary. It has, I believe, become a valuable resource for historians and the merely curious. W...

Our thanks to Bernhard for his hard work. He rescued this from the previously posted group photo, a truly significant contribution to preser...

 Library of Congress files:

 Anyone have the talent or equipment to clean this photo? [Click on image to see it entire.]

 A. D. Jones using a pseudonym. A major life-crash. 

 This is in very rough draft, the introductory matter to chapter three, Separate Identity, vol. 3. This post will come down within the week...

            The discovery of the undertaker’s bill for Pastor Russell was behind a recent article on Josiah Bushy Kepner. This covered what ...

      The Watch Tower Society owned a cemetery for a number of years in the latter days of CTR. Originally purchased in 1905 it covered arou...

     CTR and the Bible Student movement used every modern means available to spread the word. One of the lesser known and lesser successfu...