Plausible Photograph of
Joseph Smith
Ten Years ago a man bought a Smith Family Photo album with "ID'S" in Illinois, Missouri, Pennsylvania and New York; he believed that he had a photograph of Joseph Smith because the locations of where the other photographs were ID'd were in areas Joseph Smith lived. In 2017, I found someone's blog with this picture- making fun of this man, because- he had unbelievable claims- such as this being the Prophet wearing the Urim and Thummin, but I saw some provnance and facial similarities to the Dibble Death mask of Joseph.
I compared the man's face below to the death mask and just by LOOKING at his physical features, from an "Artist Eye" I saw incredible similarities, then I began using layer techniques to compare locations of features and they match up, even the wrinkles.
Facial analysis research page here: https://www.plausiblephotographofjosephsmithjunior.com/facial-analysis.html
I had a serious drive to research this old CDV image, Fall 2017, I was able to actually BUY it and it's real people! That fall I found out so many cool things, like the photographer J.S. Bibbins worked in Newark, Illinois, died in Plano- all of which was in Kendall County- where Joseph Smith III lived (detailed information here: https://www.plausiblephotographofjosephsmithjunior.com/provenance.html
The scariest but coolest thing to research was the clothing (websites state this is the FIRST important step) and his clothing was consistent with 1840s, using Abraham Lincoln, an Illinois politician whose image was taken many times from the 1840s, 50s and 60s. When I analyzed his jacket, I found a Maudsley drawing that had a similar lapel and notch of Joseph Smith, AND I found a real photograph of Joseph Smith's vest that match unbelievable well, here: https://www.plausiblephotographofjosephsmithjunior.com/josephs-vest-1840s-clothing.html
Currently I am making some strides in getting this image studied by professionals, along with the skulls (which would help in authentication). I am just an artist, singer and dancer, not a scientist! -but I am the owner and believe that this man is Joseph Smith. I think that it is a reprint from a negative- onto a CDV, just as Emma Smith's 1845 image was reprinted onto a CDV as well and think that it is highly likely that Lucien Foster did both paper photography and daguerreotypes, as BOTH processes were popular in different areas of the world, but ONLY Henry Fox Tablot's Calotype process (patented a few years before Joseph's death) could reprint images. Talbot lived in England, so the massive influx of English settlers of Nauvoo very well would have been aware of this "cheaper" process (than daguerreotypes).
I have many pages of research that you can see at the top of the page, and if you're on a cell phone- click the three lines to see them as well! Enjoy!
I compared the man's face below to the death mask and just by LOOKING at his physical features, from an "Artist Eye" I saw incredible similarities, then I began using layer techniques to compare locations of features and they match up, even the wrinkles.
Facial analysis research page here: https://www.plausiblephotographofjosephsmithjunior.com/facial-analysis.html
I had a serious drive to research this old CDV image, Fall 2017, I was able to actually BUY it and it's real people! That fall I found out so many cool things, like the photographer J.S. Bibbins worked in Newark, Illinois, died in Plano- all of which was in Kendall County- where Joseph Smith III lived (detailed information here: https://www.plausiblephotographofjosephsmithjunior.com/provenance.html
The scariest but coolest thing to research was the clothing (websites state this is the FIRST important step) and his clothing was consistent with 1840s, using Abraham Lincoln, an Illinois politician whose image was taken many times from the 1840s, 50s and 60s. When I analyzed his jacket, I found a Maudsley drawing that had a similar lapel and notch of Joseph Smith, AND I found a real photograph of Joseph Smith's vest that match unbelievable well, here: https://www.plausiblephotographofjosephsmithjunior.com/josephs-vest-1840s-clothing.html
Currently I am making some strides in getting this image studied by professionals, along with the skulls (which would help in authentication). I am just an artist, singer and dancer, not a scientist! -but I am the owner and believe that this man is Joseph Smith. I think that it is a reprint from a negative- onto a CDV, just as Emma Smith's 1845 image was reprinted onto a CDV as well and think that it is highly likely that Lucien Foster did both paper photography and daguerreotypes, as BOTH processes were popular in different areas of the world, but ONLY Henry Fox Tablot's Calotype process (patented a few years before Joseph's death) could reprint images. Talbot lived in England, so the massive influx of English settlers of Nauvoo very well would have been aware of this "cheaper" process (than daguerreotypes).
I have many pages of research that you can see at the top of the page, and if you're on a cell phone- click the three lines to see them as well! Enjoy!
Copy of a Drawing "The Two Martyrs", depicted by Sutcliff Maudsley, who drew Joseph Smith numerous times, in person, before his death. Notice how his lapel has a darker upper, and matches that of this man from a Smith Family Album.
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Vest worn by Joseph Smith, shown in a Buddy Youngreen 1984 Ensign Magazine article. See the page Joseph Vest...
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In this video above, I use a feature called “layering”, using an apple ipad and pencil to outline certain features of the man in my CDV, and I simply drag that raw outline onto the death mask of Joseph Smith. See my page Facial Analysis for a deeper analysis of this man’s face, to the death mask of Joseph Smith:https://www.plausiblephotographofjosephsmithjunior.com/facial-analysis.html
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In This video I delve into the truly fascinating story of the photographic artist, J.S. Bibbins, where he lived, worked and died, and totally mind blowing link between his Father and Emma Hale Smith: https://www.plausiblephotographofjosephsmithjunior.com/provenance.html
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I have had people wonder why, with so many different photographs of the death mask of Joseph Smith, they look so different and have different results, it has to do with camera distortion and camera angles, which I explain in the video above, as I also superimpose the out of 1840s Illinois Man- onto various different photographs of Joseph Smith and explain why I favor using one particular photograph of the Death Mask...
My analysis of Skull 1, refuting the claim that Skull 1 has been for sure proven to be Hyrum Smith’s. The reasoning in 1920s was that there was a hole going through the side of Skull 1- and it was reported that Hyrum was shot in the head, but he was shot in the face and that one bullet could not have busted the two sides of his skull, having read all the accounts of the murders from those inside of the jail (WIllard Richards and John Taylor) and those who were outside when Joseph Smith fell and then was propped up and shot repeatedly (I believe that was too painful for Willard to watch or describe, he just describes a huge crowd and knowing he was for sure dead and had “no signs of life”), only Joseph Smith was shot repeatedly, Hyrum was ONLY described as having one bullet hole to the left of his nose, that one bullet could not have broken the left and right parietal bones, Joseph Smith did go out head first and landed on his head (which would have broken his skull, esp. the sides of his skull since he fell on his “left side” per Willard and those outside said he fell on his head...). Read more in detail, on my page “The Skull Controversy” here: https://www.plausiblephotographofjosephsmithjunior.com/his-skull.html
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