“The desire for the Larsen daguerreotype to be an image of Joseph Smith has overrun scholarly caution and even reason,” she says. “It may be a picture of Joseph Smith; sufficient evidence ...

It is titled “Hidden Things Shall Come to Light: The Visual Image of Joseph Smith Jr.” Larsen, who joined the Utah-based church in the past decade, believed the photo was his great-great ...

In this combination image, Portrait of Joseph Smith, circa 1842 and the John Whitmer ... as God and Jesus visited him while he was praying and told him not to join any of the churches.

But no verified photograph or image of Joseph Smith has ever been found — until now? A descendant believes he has found a daguerreotype of Joseph Smith, according to Lachlan Mackay, a member of ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (August 4, 2015)– The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released never-before-seen images of the “seer stone” used by Joseph Smith to translate the Book of ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The Mormon church for the first time is publishing photos of a small sacred stone it believes founder Joseph Smith used to help translate the story that became the basis of the ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Mormon critics reacting to the release of photos of Mormon founder Joseph Smith’s chocolate-colored “seer stone,” see it as another reason to view the Mormon prophet as a ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released never-before-seen images of the "seer stone" used by Joseph Smith to translate the Book of Mormon from golden plates.

(KUTV) For more than 150 years, artists have tried to portray what the founder of the Mormon church, Joseph ... used Smith's death mask to capture what he believes is an accurate image of the ...

while praying Joseph was visited by two "personages" who identified themselves as God the Father and Jesus Christ. He was told not to join any of the churches. In 1823, Joseph Smith said he was ...