Text transcribed from caption: S-3980 THE GOSPEL BY BOTTLE TACOMA, Wash. -- Empty whiskey bottles are utilized by George Phillips to spread the Gospel. Phillips, who calls himself the “Whiskey Bottle Evangelist,” has for five years been inserting religious tracts in the bottles, then has thrown them to sea. Here he is shown operating the machine he invented to roll the thousands of tracts in colored cellophane. At left is a completed bottle including sand for ballast which makes bottle stick when it reaches shore. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (PA-MES-6C-6-W)

Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)

1946

still image

photographs

photograph : black-and-white ; 7 1/4 x 9 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.
Phillips, George.

Evangelists--Washington--Tacoma.
Tracts--Washington--Tacoma.
Religious literature--Distribution--Washington--Tacoma.
Bible--Study and teaching--Washington--Tacoma.

Washington
Tacoma.
Tacoma (Wash.)
North and Central America--United States--Washington--Pierce--Tacoma

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Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.

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RNS RG 1, image no. S-3980; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

RNS-RG1_S-3980

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