Daguerreotype photo by Jim Mathis, via Daniel Larsen) This side-by-side comparison shows the Joseph Smith Jr. oil portrait, circa 1842, attributed to David Rogers, and the recently discovered ...

Historians and facial recognition experts: Yes, with 95% accuracy we believe this is a photo of Joseph Smith. LDS Twitter: Hold my root beer. — Marc Olivier (@takeoutphoto) July 22, 2022.

A photo of Mormonism founder Joseph Smith Jr. was found after around 180 years and recently confirmed by one of his family descendants, but the church itself is less sure.

On July 21, Mormons were rocked by news that a great-great-grandson of Joseph Smith had discovered a daguerreotype he believes to be the only known photograph of the prophet. Almost immediately ...

This is not the first time someone has come forward with a purported photograph of Joseph Smith. In 2008, S. Michael Tracy published a book, "Millions Shall Know Brother Joseph Again: ...

Perhaps a true-to-life biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, can never be written. Smith’s claims to accessing the divine were too outlandish, his embrace of polygamy too ...

"The restoration of the fullness of Christian doctrine is a sunburst of light and truth," President Dallin H. Oaks said at the 2025 Seminar for New Mission Leaders.

Joseph Smith 1805-1844 Born on December 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont, to Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph Smith Jr. grew up on a series of tenant farms in Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York.

"Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet" and author John Turner. (Photo by Ron Aira/Creative Services/George Mason University) ...

All written records that remain from Smith’s 38 years on earth can be found stretched across the 27 volumes of the Joseph ...

For Latter-day Saints across the globe, Thursday marks the 180th anniversary of a tragedy \u2014 on June 27, 1844, an armed mob stormed into Carthage Jail and took the lives of the prophet Joseph ...