Watch Tower History

 Newspapers started carrying Russell's sermons in 1903. I won't discuss all the issues surrounding this enterprise, but it is intere...

 This, with an American publication from the same year, is the earliest mention of 2520 years as the length of the Gentile Times. This 1798 ...

Currently on ebay. I've not seen this before.  

 A man of many facets, he was a Methodist clergyman, a Civil War Veteran, a well-known and respected photographer, one of the first contribu...

 A challenge. Can you relate these views of the city to Watch Tower history in the Russell era? The flood of 1874.  Allegheny City was subje...

Guest post by Chris G. Published in 1924 this book was purported to be a favorite read...

A new book has recently been published on the United Cemeteries, entitled GRAVE MATTERS. It is 170 pages and fully illustrated. Some of ...

 I'm up and working - sort of. This is my youngest daughter dressed for a drama. I didn't ask permission to post her photo, but she...

 These come from Raymond S., a friend to this blog. The first view is of the building about 1910 and the second is how it looked about 1930....

 Dr. Schulz has respiratory problems and is mostly bound to his chair. He is, he says, behind on many emails and asks that you be patient. H...

  From People’s Pulpit, Volume 2, number 4 (1910). Colorized by Leroy.

Grew's  Second series of letters to the Rev. E. Lee, on the character of the Son is downloadable from books.google.com

 I need a clean, flat bed scan of this. Anyone?

 Now on ebay:

 From The Manchester, Vermont, Journal , June 22, 1876 The Rutland, Vermont, Weekly Herald , December 18, 1862. The Lambertville, New Jersey...

       This is the story of an almost forgotten donor to the Watch Tower Society, whose financial contributions played an important part in ...

 Seriously wounded, he was removed from the front lines. A single letter and this are the only records other than official records and a new...

 

 This booklet is important because it contains the best explanation of  Paton's Universalism (in my opinion anyway) and shows that he ev...

 I am close to publishing a middle grade / young adult novel. This was prompted by my experience teaching. My last ten years teaching were s...

     This postcard was sent from Boston, Mass. on 8 May 1907. It gives no space for a message, so the sender has written the words “Since ...

  I am open to articles on any facet of Russell era Watch Tower history. Articles must be footnoted to original sources using the following ...

  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...