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Joseph Smith’s Journals Joseph Smith’s Histories Other Photographs

Joseph Smith’s Journals

Joseph Smith’s Journals.

Joseph Smith’s Journals

Photograph by Welden C. Andersen and Mark Ashurst-McGee. (Church History Library, Salt Lake City.)

Joseph Smith’s First Ohio Journal

Joseph Smith’s First Ohio Journal

Photograph by Welden C. Andersen. (JS, Journal, 1832–1834, JS Collection, Church History Library, Salt Lake City.)

Joseph Smith’s Second Ohio Journal

Joseph Smith’s Second Ohio Journal

Photograph by Welden C. Andersen. (JS, Journal, 1835–1836, JS Collection, Church History Library, Salt Lake City.)

Record Book Containing Joseph Smith’s First Missouri Journal

Record Book Containing Joseph Smith’s First Missouri Journal

Photograph by Welden C. Andersen. (JS, Journal, Mar.–Sept. 1838, Church History Library, Salt Lake City.)

Back Cover of Joseph Smith’s Second Missouri Journal

Back Cover of Joseph Smith’s Second Missouri Journal

Photograph by Welden C. Andersen. (JS, Journal, Sept.–Oct. 1838, JS Collection, Church History Library, Salt Lake City.)

Joseph Smith’s First Illinois Journal

Joseph Smith’s First Illinois Journal

Photograph by Welden C. Andersen. (JS, Journal, 1839, JS Collection, Church History Library, Salt Lake City, Church History Library, Salt Lake City.)

Joseph Smith’s Nauvoo Journals

Joseph Smith’s Nauvoo Journals

Photograph by Welden C. Andersen. (Church History Library, Salt Lake City.)

Record Book Containing Joseph Smith’s First Nauvoo Journal

Record Book Containing Joseph Smith’s First Nauvoo Journal

Photograph by Welden C. Andersen. (Book of the Law of the Lord, Church History Library, Salt Lake City.)

Joseph Smith’s Second Nauvoo Journal

Joseph Smith’s Second Nauvoo Journal

Photograph by Alex D. Smith. (JS, Journal, Dec. 1842–June 1844, JS Collection, Church History Library, Salt Lake City.)

First Volume of Joseph Smith’s Second Nauvoo Journal

First Volume of Joseph Smith’s Second Nauvoo Journal

Photograph by Welden C. Andersen. (JS, Journal, Dec. 1842–June 1844, bk. 1, JS Collection, Church History Library, Salt Lake City.)

Joseph Smith’s Histories

Joseph Smith’s Multivolume Manuscript History

Joseph Smith’s Multivolume Manuscript History

Photograph by Welden C. Andersen. (JS History, vols. A-1–F-1, Church History Library, Salt Lake City.)

Joseph Smith’s Earliest Narrative History

Joseph Smith’s Earliest Narrative History

Photograph by Welden C. Andersen. (JS History, ca. summer 1832, in JS Letterbook 1, JS Collection, Church History Library, Salt Lake City.)

Joseph Smith’s 1834–1836 History

Joseph Smith’s 1834–1836 History

Photograph by Welden C. Andersen. (JS History, 1834–1836, in JS History, vol. A-1, Church History Library, Salt Lake City.)

History Drafted in 1839 (Draft 1)

Joseph Smith’s History Drafted in 1839 (Draft 1)

Photograph by Welden C. Andersen. (JS History, 1839, Church History Library, Salt Lake City.)

Joseph Smith’s 1838–circa 1841 History (Draft 3)

Joseph Smith’s 1838–circa 1841 History (Draft 3)

Photograph by Welden C. Andersen. (JS History, 1838–ca. 1841, Church History Library, Salt Lake City.)

Other Photographs

History of American Religious Denominations

History of American Religious Denominations

I. D. Rupp, He Pasa Ekklesia: An Original History of the Religious Denominations at Present Existing in the United States, 1844. Photograph by Welden C. Andersen. (Copy in private possession.)

Hebrew Lexicon and Bible

Hebrew Lexicon and Bible

Josiah M. Gibbs, A Manual Hebrew and English Lexicon, second edition, 1832; Augustus Hahn, ed., Biblia Hebraica, second edition, 1833. Photograph by unknown photographer. (Courtesy Community of Christ Library-Archives, Independence, MO.)

Hebrew Grammar

Hebrew Grammar

Moses Stuart, A Grammar of the Hebrew Language, fifth edition, 1835. Photograph by Lachlan Mackay. (Courtesy Community of Christ Library-Archives, Independence, MO.)

Hebrew School Textbook

Hebrew School Textbook

Joshua Seixas, A Manual Hebrew Grammar for the Use of Beginners, second edition, 1834. Photograph by Welden C. Andersen. (Church History Library, Salt Lake City.)

“The Book of Generation Adam”

“The Book of Generation Adam”

1886 photograph of “Caractors” document, showing portion of page no longer extant. Photograph by Jacob Hicks. (Courtesy Clay County Museum and Historical Society, Liberty, MO.)

Characters Copied by Frederick G. Williams

Characters Copied by Frederick G. Williams

Book of Mormon characters copied by Frederick G. Williams, with margin notes made by Ezra G. Williams. Photograph by Welden C. Andersen. (Church History Library, Salt Lake City.)

Guns in Possession of Joseph and Hyrum Smith at Carthage Jail, 27 June 1844

Guns in Possession of Joseph and Hyrum Smith at Carthage Jail, 27 June 1844

(Church History Museum, Salt Lake City. Photograph by Welden C. Andersen.)

Willard Richards’s Journal

Willard Richards’s Journal

(Photograph by Welden C. Andersen.)

William Clayton’s Account of Joseph Smith’s Activities

William Clayton’s Account of Joseph Smith’s Activities

(Photograph by Welden C. Andersen.)

Joseph Smith’s Masonic Apron

Joseph Smith’s Masonic Apron

Circa 1842–1844. Abraham Jonas, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Illinois, formally organized a Masonic lodge in Nauvoo, Illinois, on 15 March 1842. Although a number of Latter-day Saints had joined the fraternity previously, Joseph Smith had not. He was initiated into Freemasonry on 15 March and raised a Master Mason the following day. Masons wore aprons to symbolically protect their clothing. Smith's personal apron, shown here, was made of silk backed with muslin. (Courtesy Community of Christ Library-Archives, Independence, MO. Photograph by Val Brinkerhoff.)

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