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These are free for personal use only. Click on picture for a larger view and to print from your browser.
Here are pictures of
Joseph Smith’s home, 
seeking wisdom from scriptures, 
his visit from 2 heavenly beings, 
translating the Book of Mormon, 
with children, 
his portrait, 
a side view, 
and holding scriptures
For more information on Joseph Smith please visit his site.
The Book of Mormon Project 
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Your pictures are pure fiction, as to how the Book of Mormon was translated by Joseph Smith.
Where the picture with Joseph, his face in a hat with the seer stone?
Where is the picture of a curtain between him and the people who was doing the translating?
You are being dishonest.
how is putting up pics being dishonest. you are not selling them
By the end of the translating, Joseph Smith no longer needed to look at the plates at all. Scribes recalled how he would stand by the window speaking the translation. Only in the beginning was he tied to the seer stones as you so cordially pointed out.
Hi, Helen!
I am not being dishonest. This is just one picture of Joseph Smith translating. Maybe this is depicting him early on in the translating process. I am just providing pictures of Joseph Smith and other information on this site for those who wishes to use them for whatever they want and I hope in a positive and constructive way. You are entitled to believe what you want but I believe that he translated the Book of Mormon by the power of God. How exactly he did this we will probably never know unless we ask him when we get to heaven. Otherwise, it is all conjecture and theories. I don’t know if the sources of information outside the Church are accurate and truthful and I don’t know if we will ever sort out all the different and seemly conflicting reports on how he did the translation. What is important is the message the Book of Mormon teaches which is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. A true Christian would accept and love all people irregardless what they believe in and would not openly call people liars and dishonest based on religious differences. A true Christian would spend their time in service to others and teach the Gospel of Christ to everyone who would listen.
My beliefs are the result of over 20 years of searching for the true Church of Jesus Christ that He established and I believe I have found that Church. Some things are not that important to me to learn and will not change what I believe in. Things that went on in the early years of the Church I will not fully understand why they happened. That was a different time and era. Every church in history went through the same thing. New changes in beliefs sometimes brings out the worst in society. How can a land of religious freedom condemn a man for what he believed in?
Beautiful pictures. Thank you very much. Brandon Evershed
To those that may be saying that these pictures are pure fiction, well it’s an artists rendering. Look at the many paintings of Christian history, the same scene or story is not painted exactly the same from era to era. Artists see things very differently and are not so concerened with fact or fiction. Photo journalists try to make images that reflect the truth.
Not a Mormon, Christian or religious.
“Your pictures are pure fiction, as to how the Book of Mormon was translated by Joseph Smith.”
It’s hard to depict a process that lasted several weeks in a single, still picture. It’s true that some of the translation was done through a seer stone in a hat. But it was also done in many other ways as well. It’s no wonder that something as significant as the Book of Mormon came forth in a number of different ways.
Perhaps a montage or series of paintings could capture the full extent of the translation process, but in the meantime I see nothing wrong with showing a single snapshot of the translation.
Most mormons are aware that there was more to the translation than the urim and thumim, and they’re getting pretty tired of people acting like they aren’t aware.