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Sunday, 22 January 2023

JFR and the assembly hot dog

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A postcard from Magdeburg from 1926. With grateful thanks to Markus who provided the image.
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Monday, 16 January 2023

The story behind a picture

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  Back in September 2020 this blog published an article “Whatever happened to the faces in the old photographs?” – a line taken from the son...
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Wednesday, 4 January 2023

Russell-Rutherford postcards

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  After J F Rutherford became Watch Tower Society president in 1917, it was not uncommon for postcards to be sent showing both his photograp...
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Saturday, 17 December 2022

Nun or none

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Collecting Watch Tower literature for many includes collecting variants of publications. Sometimes changes were made due to refinements of b...
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Tuesday, 13 December 2022

The family Knorr

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This blog concentrates on the era of C T Russell, but sometimes material comes to light that reaches beyond that. Below is a cutting of a we...
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Monday, 21 November 2022

Pastor Russell arrested

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From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 22, 1914. According to the full story, the police stopped the showing of the Photodrama half way throu...
Sunday, 13 November 2022

Lost Films

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There are several “lost” films in the history of the Watch Tower Society. The 1914 Photodrama of Creation was a big success and since at le...
Sunday, 6 November 2022

Original Directors

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Here is a composite picture of five of the original Watch Tower directors put together by Bernhard. The two missing (for whom we as yet do n...
Wednesday, 2 November 2022

Paul Johnson comes to Britain...

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Sunday, 30 October 2022

Photodrama memorabilia

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A few items from Tom's collection.
Sunday, 16 October 2022

Neutralizing a Perceived Subversive Threat

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Guest post by Gary ‘Neutralizing a perceived subversive threat': Censorship, threats, persecutions and prosecutions used to keep 'at...