“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 — 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, 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 ...

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Joseph Smith also used his seer stone to seek buried treasure, and He translated much of the Book of Mormon by placing the seer stone in a hat to block out the ambient light, then proceeded to ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A family heirloom at least 170 years old could contain the very first image of Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Smith’s ...