if their death masks are any indication. All in all, the polarized response to the photo reveals less about Joseph Smith than it does about us. Joseph Smith is a deeply divisive figure ...

“It may be a picture of Joseph Smith; sufficient evidence ... Comparing the reversed daguerreotype image to Smith’s death mask photos revealed the correspondences immediately.

They compared the photo with the death mask for Hyrum Smith, Joseph’s brother. They hired experts who traced the daguerreotype and laid it on the death mask and the oil painting. “And the ...

24, 2014. Researchers compared Joseph Smith’s death mask with a new daguerreotype purported to be Smith. (Photo: Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News) As part of their research, Mackay and Romig ...

The emerging image was startling to many, who know Smith only from a portrait ... that seem to match pretty well. Joseph and his brother Hyrum both had death masks taken. What were the ...

Larsen believes the “timing” is right for this photo to be published ... along with Smith’s death mask. Thinking it could be a different Smith relative — Joseph’s brother Hyrum, for ...

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have been obsessed with Joseph Smith’s appearance ... The resulting death masks have become some of the church’s most cherished ...

(RNS) — A great-great-grandson of Joseph Smith Jr. found the Mormon ... experts to compare the daguerreotype to Smith’s death mask. The company reported back that 19 of 21 measured features ...

Referencing a painting of Joseph Smith by David Rogers around ... “We need to see the death mask in person versus simply high-resolution photos, but that felt pretty compelling,” he said.