The first known photograph of LDS Church founder Joseph Smith has been discovered. See it here and learn more about how and where it was found.
This side-by-side comparison shows the Joseph Smith Jr. oil portrait, circa 1842, left, attributed to David Rogers, and the recently discovered Smith/Larsen daguerreotype.The historian’s first impression was that the man staring at him from the 1844 metal daguerreotype was not Mormonism’s founder, Joseph Smith.
Today that daguerreotype and the story of its discovery by another Smith direct descendant, Daniel Larsen, are being published and explained in an extensive article in the John Whitmer Historical Association Journal.
At that time, he tried to open what he thought was a pocket watch but the release mechanism was bent, and he didn’t want to harm it by prying it open, so he stowed it away and forgot about it for 28 years. This side-by-side comparison shows the Joseph Smith Jr. oil portrait, circa 1842, attributed to David Rogers, and the recently discovered Smith/Larsen daguerreotype.
They came across a May 1844 advertisement in a Latter-day Saint newspaper for lockets that included daguerreotypes, according to theThose helped answer the key question : provenance or a record of ownership. The historian believes Emma handed down the daguerreotype through the women “because they wouldn’t be asked about it,” Christin Mackay said, while “Joseph III and his brothers would be.”
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