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Flunking Sainthood
Mormon Founder Joseph Smith’s Photo Discovered by Descendant After Nearly 180 Years
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Jana Riess
Wikimediaorg
Marooned in their homes, many Americans made the best of the early days of the pandemic by sorting through old boxes of family artifacts. One Saturday morning in March 2020, Dan Larsen and his wife were doing just that when they discovered the world’s only verified photographic image of Mormonism’s founder, Joseph Smith Jr. Larsen,…
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