Photographs


Joseph Smith’s Journals

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Other Photographs

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.)

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.)

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

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.)

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.)

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.)

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

(Photograph by Welden C. Andersen.)

(Photograph by Welden C. Andersen.)

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.)