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Highlights from our collections and exhibits, staff blogs, and insights on the history of the Christian Science movement.
Petty cash and ‘positive statements’
Explore the creative genius of photojournalist Gordon Converse.
Voices of a Global Movement: The building of the Oconto church
Photograph of lumberjacks in Wisconsin, c. 1890s, Courtesy of Chippewa Valley Museum. Along the northwest shore of Lake Michigan, the small town of Oconto, Wisconsin, became a focal point in the history of Christian Science. About 2,600 people resided...
Mary Baker Eddy’s personal photo album
Find out what people she chose to include.
A Christian Science art medal
Discover this collectible object commemorating Christian Science.
Voices of a Global Movement: On the grow in Nairobi
Find out how Christian Science expanded in the Kenyan capital and beyond.
Inscriptions in Mary Baker Eddy’s books
Find out how a message on a flyleaf can give new insight to the researcher.
Treatment for the George Washington Glover letter to his father, John Glover
Read how a badly damaged document was given new life.
Building “Mrs. Eddy’s gift” to Concord, New Hampshire
Read how a church took shape to nurture the city she called home.
Voices of a Global Movement: “To my great joy I found a Christian Science chaplain….”
Meet one of the first Christian Science chaplains, who served in the war a century ago.
Joshua Bailey, United States Internal Revenue Collector
This student of Mary Baker Eddy achieved good despite his checkered past.
From the Papers: “the book that is doing so much good”
Read one of Eddy’s letters to a student practicing Christian Science in Chicago.
With the Program: Mary Baker Eddy and American Bible Culture
Learn about Bible publishing that embraced the common man and woman.
From the Papers: Sermon at Chickering Hall
Read about the first time Eddy preached in a noted Boston location.
From the Collections: Clues from a photo album
Explore some paths we traveled in researching images from the turn of the nineteenth century.
From the Papers: Praise for the new Journal
Read this annotated letter from a student of Mary Baker Eddy.
