prossible Photograph of
Joseph Smith
This website is a compilation of my research into an old Carte Vista with an 1840s Illinois Man, allegedly found in a Smith Family Photo Album (which after extensive research, I now own).
He was either photographed or this was reprinted in Newark Illinois, close to where Joseph and Emma's boys lived for many years, and the photographic artist, J.S. Bibbin's father Elisha Bibbins knew Emma Smith as a little girl, so location check, friends- check, vest- check, jacket- check (see JS JR Clothing link for info on that), and his face matches Josephs facial nuances in near perfect harmony (see Facial Analysis page). His hairstyle matches, brushed forward, less hair on one side (per many accounts, as a result of the tar and feathering), scars even match, his eyes are amazingly light, probably blue. I can't say it all in one paragraph, so PLEASE click the down arrow if you are on a mobile app, or click through the growing pages of research above.
I believe Joseph Smith was not lying in saying he had a daguerreotype of his father, I think the one found in Missouri, by a group in England might be him (see Daguerreotype and it's Likeness).
I honestly believe that Lucien Foster did paper photography, some of his work is very clear salt water prints, also shown on that page. Many people don't realize that although not very liked in the 1840s, paper photography DID exist and was the ONLY medium that could be reprinted, so the evidence being the many salt water prints from the Nauvoo Era, including Emma Smith's 1845 CDV (reprint) of her holding baby David (who was ten when CDV were patented) on the exact same cardstock and exact same background is amazingly similar, too similar to not be supportive and there is no where found a daguerreotype of this exact image of Emma.
Below is one technique to analyze a photograph to the death mask of Joseph (superimposing the death mask and upping and lowering the opacity).
He was either photographed or this was reprinted in Newark Illinois, close to where Joseph and Emma's boys lived for many years, and the photographic artist, J.S. Bibbin's father Elisha Bibbins knew Emma Smith as a little girl, so location check, friends- check, vest- check, jacket- check (see JS JR Clothing link for info on that), and his face matches Josephs facial nuances in near perfect harmony (see Facial Analysis page). His hairstyle matches, brushed forward, less hair on one side (per many accounts, as a result of the tar and feathering), scars even match, his eyes are amazingly light, probably blue. I can't say it all in one paragraph, so PLEASE click the down arrow if you are on a mobile app, or click through the growing pages of research above.
I believe Joseph Smith was not lying in saying he had a daguerreotype of his father, I think the one found in Missouri, by a group in England might be him (see Daguerreotype and it's Likeness).
I honestly believe that Lucien Foster did paper photography, some of his work is very clear salt water prints, also shown on that page. Many people don't realize that although not very liked in the 1840s, paper photography DID exist and was the ONLY medium that could be reprinted, so the evidence being the many salt water prints from the Nauvoo Era, including Emma Smith's 1845 CDV (reprint) of her holding baby David (who was ten when CDV were patented) on the exact same cardstock and exact same background is amazingly similar, too similar to not be supportive and there is no where found a daguerreotype of this exact image of Emma.
Below is one technique to analyze a photograph to the death mask of Joseph (superimposing the death mask and upping and lowering the opacity).
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Photographs of JOseph SMith's immediate family
1840s Illinois Man
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Drawing, depicted by Sutcliff Maudsley, who drew Joseph Smith numerous times, before his death.
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Vest worn by Joseph Smith.
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