“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 ...

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 ...

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.

(KUTV) As part of an ongoing effort to demystify some of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' history, officials today released rare images of Joseph Smith's seer stone, said to help ...

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 ...

One Saturday morning in March 2020, Dan Larsen and his wife were doing just that when they discovered the world’s only verified photographic image of Mormonism’s founder, Joseph Smith Jr ...

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 ...

(RNS) — The polarized response to the photo reveals less about Joseph ... of Joseph Smith — people who actually changed their minds about him in some way because of the new image — are ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...