Kromer Columbus Ice, three tintypes, ca. 1888-1891
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by mac
1M ago
Kromer Columbus Ice, age about twelve years, 1888 Kromer Columbus Ice, age about fourteen or fifteen years, 1890-1891 Kromer Columbus Ice, age about fifteen years, 1891 ..read more
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Grace Avenue Church of Christ (Nashville, TN) Homecoming and Reunion 1992
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by mac
2M ago
This video was prepared in late 1992 to celebrate the history and memories of Grace Avenue Church of Christ, Nashville, TN. Former members of the Grace Avenue Church gathered for a homecoming meal at Riverwood Church of Christ (Nashville, TN) in October 1992.  Emcee for that occasion was Jim Bill McInteer, assisted by James Baird, Carl Robinson, Harold Baker, Howard Utley. Grace Avenue Church (est. 1926 at 3rd and Grace in North Edgefield) continued the ministry of Foster Street Church of Christ (est. 1885 at North 2nd and Foster Street). Grace Avenue Church closed in 1977. Digitized from ..read more
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Some Restoration Movement sites in downtown Nashville
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by mac
2M ago
At some point somewhere I talked about Restoration Movement sites in downtown Nashville, and how close they are.  At the risk of trivializing the geography (Alexander Campbell slept here!) it is worth noting that one cannot move around too much downtown without walking across some site where something fairly significant happened. Metro Archives posted this photo from 1965 to their Facebook page some years ago.  It provided the perfect canvas to sketch out for my audience what I needed to say. Downtown Nashville, aerial view, 1965. From Metro Nashville Archives I must have been talk ..read more
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Montgomery Church of Christ, Montgomery, West Virginia, ca. 1920
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by mac
2M ago
In about 1907-1908 K. C. Ice preached for this congregation, known both as Montgomery Christian Church and Montgomery Church of Christ. I suspect this building was the same one in which he preached. This card was posted December 21, 1921. Montgomery Church of Christ, Montgomery, West Virginia, ca. 1920 ..read more
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Advertisement for Charles Reign Scoville’s Christian Gospel Hymns, May 1910
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by mac
2M ago
In an earlier post I mentioned advertisements, 1) carry a certain kind of informational value about the past, and 2) offer a certain kind of insight that assists us in interpreting it.  This can be true for printed matter such as books or tracts; for institutions like colleges and benevolent or missionary agencies; or for informational, persuasive, or propagandistic statements. This ad, for hymnals, is another illustration.  Composed by Charles Reign Scoville, Music Publisher, it announces that a new edition of Christian Gospel Hymns is off the press.  We learn the first pr ..read more
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Christian Publishing Company reply card, 1897
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by mac
2M ago
Post card from Christian Publishing Company, St. Louis, to G. W. McFadden, dated 15 March 1897, crediting an extension on a subscription to Christian-Evangelist into 1898, a set of views of Palestine (stereopticon cards?), and a copy of W. J. Lhamon’s Studies in Acts. Reply card, Christian Publishing Company, St. Louis, 1897 ..read more
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Know Your Bible, advertisement January 14, 1956
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by mac
2M ago
Know Your Bible was a long-running television program which aired locally on channel 8 WSIX, Nashville.  This ad appeared in the Nashville Banner, January 14, 1956.  The ad is great–albeit brief–source of information about the program.  I think this program was a definite precursor to Ira North’s later Amazing Grace Bible Class program.  In it we certainly see master rhetor North take early advantage of local television opportunities.  Now, maybe somewhere film survives of Know Your Bible?  Let’s hope so. Advertisement for Know Your Bible television program. Nash ..read more
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A Sunday night service at the Wilhite-Stewart gospel meeting, Tipton, Indiana, January 1911
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2M ago
A Sunday evening service in the Wilhite-Stewart meeting at Tipton, Indiana, January 1911. From Christian Standard, February 18, 1911, page 286 ..read more
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Fourth Anniversary Birthday party for radio station WLAC, Nashville, 1930
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by mac
2M ago
On November 24th, 1930, Andrew Mizell Burton, J. T. Ward, Charles R. Brewer, and others donned tuxedos and evening gowns to celebrate the fourth anniversary of station W.L.A.C., or W-Life-and-Casualty, sometimes known as Station We Love All Campbellites.  This festive affair appears to have been held in the studio in the upper floor of the (old) Life and Casualty building on 4th Avenue, North. Station manager Ward (who would purchase it from Burton a few years later) is seated on the middle row, far left.  To his left is A. M. Burton.  Directly behind him is Charles R. Brewer, m ..read more
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Clarence A. Westapher, the tract man
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by mac
2M ago
Clarence A. Westapher, self-styled ‘tract man,’ was a carpenter by trade but wrote several tracts, 500,000 copies of which he distributed.  My files are packed up, but if memory serves, the Westaphers may have lived in West Nashville for a while.  In the 1930s-1940s, B. D. Morehead, publisher of the Nashville-based World Vision magazine printed and distributed multiple thousands of Westapher’s tracts and for that reason I have a file for CAW among my Nashville research. Some years ago I put some of his tracts in the pipeline for digitization and you can download them here. Biographi ..read more
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