“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 ...

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 ...

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.

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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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...