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Pix of Joseph Smith from MAD
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:25 am
by _beastie
thread:
http://www.mormonapologetics.org/index. ... opic=34385
I agree that this one actually looks like him, the other one didn't really. Some speculate it's really Samuel Smith. Either way, it's interesting. Good looking man, helps explain all the plural wives.
You can see an larger version by clicking on the MAD pix.
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:30 am
by _Moniker
Huh, that's actually a fairly good photo of him. I think he looks better in that photo than the other ones the LDS Church uses. I can't get the picture to enlarge for some reason, though. It looks like a page of hieroglyphics when I attempt to view it.
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:43 am
by _beastie
Did you go to the MAD thread to enlargen it?
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 3:22 am
by _Moniker
beastie wrote:Did you go to the MAD thread to enlargen it?
Yep. When I clicked on the picture a new window opened and it looked like hieroglyphics. Oh well, I just leaned real close to my screen to view it.
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 7:02 am
by _moksha
I like this new picture. It is more like the handsome Joseph Smith we have grown accustomed to in the Church movies, rather than those earlier portraits.
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:41 pm
by _asbestosman
Too bad I don't share his good looks. Joseph Smith and I are distant cousins (4th cousins 6 times removed or something like that).
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 11:04 pm
by _Blixa
The provenance of this picture is very strange. Some guy has a job looking through books and writing summaries. Looks through a books of old photos, sees one he thinks looks like Smith. That's it. He notices it comes from New York and was acquired in 1845. Can't read the descriptive text, its in Portugeuse.
That's it.
Some guy thinks he coincidentally stumbled upon an a photo of Joseph Smith.
It doesn't much resemble any of the pictures done in his lifetime if you ask me. That and the "miraculous" provenance, make me skeptical.
Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:52 am
by _moksha
Blixa wrote:. That and the "miraculous" provenance, make me skeptical.
Some scoffed at Mark Hoffman too.
Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:59 am
by _moksha
While searching the musky old archives of Google, I ran across this possible photo of just prior to baptism:
Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 6:03 pm
by _Blixa
moksha wrote:Blixa wrote:. That and the "miraculous" provenance, make me skeptical.
Some scoffed at Mark Hoffman too.
Let's hope I don't blow up, then.