An Angel Showing the Gold Plates to Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery, and David Whitmer (Moroni Shows the Gold Plates to Joseph, Oliver, and David), by William L. Maughan; Primary manual 5-17

An Angel Showing the Gold Plates to Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery, and David Whitmer (Moroni Shows the Gold Plates to Joseph, Oliver, and David)

Apostle Orson Hyde Dedicates the Holy Land, by Clark Kelley Price; GAK 419; 3 Nephi 5:24

Apostle Orson Hyde Dedicates the Holy Land

Benbow Farm and Pond, by Francis R. (Frank) Magleby

Benbow Farm and Pond

Brother Joseph, by David Lindsley (62161); GAB 87; nursery manual lesson 24, page 102; 2 Nephi 3:6–15; Doctrine and Covenants 5:9–10; 21:1–5; 27:13; 135:3; Joseph Smith—History
This image is to be used for Church purposes only.

Brother Joseph

Chimney Rock, by Frederick Hawkins Piercy

Chimney Rock

Come Let Us Rejoice (The Foundation of the Relief Society), by Walter Rane; GAB 98; Our Heritage, 61–62

Come Let Us Rejoice (The Foundation of the Relief Society)

Coming of the Gulls

Covered Wagon Pioneers, by Minerva K. Teichert

Covered Wagon Pioneers

Covered Wagon Pioneers, Madonna at Dawn, by Minerva K. Teichert

Covered Wagon Pioneers, Madonna at Dawn

Crossing the Platte, by Harold Hopkinson; Primary manual 5-45

Crossing the Platte

Dan Jones Awakens Wales, by Clark Kelley Price; GAB 100; Our Heritage, 63

Dan Jones Awakens Wales

Elijah Appearing in the Kirtland Temple, by Dan Lewis; GAB 95; Malachi 4:5–6

Elijah Appearing in the Kirtland Temple

Elijah Restores the Power to Seal Families for Eternity, by Gary E. Smith; GAK 417; Malachi 4:5–6; Matthew 17:1–3; Doctrine and Covenants 110:13–16

Elijah Restores the Power to Seal Families for Eternity

Emma Smith (Emma Hale Smith), by Lee Greene Richards (62509); GAK 405; GAB 88; Primary manual 5-22; Doctrine and Covenants 25. Emma Smith was the first Relief Society General President, serving from 1842 to 1844.

Emma Smith (Emma Hale Smith)

Emma Smith, the Elect Lady, by Theodore S. Gorka; Primary manual 5-35

Emma Smith, the Elect Lady

First Vision

A still frame from a film depicting Joseph Smith’s First Vision.

First Vision Movie Still

First Winter in the Valley, by Jonathan Leo Fairbanks

First Winter in the Valley

Four Missionaries to the Lamanites, by Robert T. Barrett; GAK 418; Primary manual 5-21; Doctrine and Covenants 32

Four Missionaries to the Lamanites

A depiction of pioneer women pushing a handcart, by Julie Rogers.

Handcart Pioneer Women

Handcart Pioneers, by C. C. A. Christensen

Handcart Pioneers

Handcart Pioneers Arrive in Salt Lake, by Clark Kelley Price

Handcart Pioneers Arrive in Salt Lake

Heber C. Kimball, by John Willard Clawson

Heber C. Kimball

Helping the Martin Handcart Company across the Sweetwater River, by Clark Kelley Price (62606); GAK 415; Primary manual 5-52

Helping the Martin Handcart Company across the Sweetwater River

Hyrum Smith

I Will Not Obey Your Order (General Doniphan Refuses to Execute Church Leaders), by Robert T. Barrett; Primary manual 5-30

I Will Not Obey Your Order (General Doniphan Refuses to Execute Church Leaders)

John the Baptist Conferring the Aaronic Priesthood (The Restoration of the Aaronic Priesthood), by Del Parson (62013); GAK 407; GAB 93; Primary manual 3-11; Primary manual 5-15; Primary manual 6-52; Doctrine and Covenants 13; Joseph Smith—History 1:68–73

John the Baptist Conferring the Aaronic Priesthood (The Restoration of the Aaronic Priesthood)

Joseph Smith Chastising the Guards at Richmond Jail, by Gary E. Smith; Primary manual 5-31

Joseph Smith Chastising the Guards at Richmond Jail

Joseph Smith Family, by Dan Baxter; Primary manual 3-7; Primary manual 5-3

Joseph Smith Family

Joseph Smith Jr. (The Prophet Joseph Smith), by Alvin Gittins (62002); GAK 401; Primary manual 2-39; Primary manual 3-6; Primary manual 5-1; Our Heritage, 1–66; 2 Nephi 3:6–15

Joseph Smith Jr. (The Prophet Joseph Smith)

Joseph Smith Ordaining Parley P. Pratt as an Apostle, by Walter Rane

Joseph Smith Ordaining Parley P. Pratt as an Apostle

A painting by John Scott showing Joseph Smith praying in the Sacred Grove.

Joseph Smith Praying in the Grove

Joseph Smith Rebuking the Guards in Richmond Jail, by Sam Lawlor

Joseph Smith Rebuking the Guards in Richmond Jail

Joseph Smith Receives the Gold Plates, by Kenneth Riley (62012); GAK 406; Primary manual 3-33; Primary manual 4-03; Primary manual 5-11; Joseph Smith—History 1:47–59

Joseph Smith Receives the Gold Plates

Joseph Smith Receives the Golden Plates, by Edward T. Grigware

Joseph Smith Receives the Golden Plates

Joseph Smith Seeks Wisdom in the Bible (Joseph Smith Seeks Wisdom from the Bible), by Dale Kilbourn; GAK 402; GAB 89; Primary manual 3-08; Primary manual 5-04; Joseph Smith—History 1:5–13

Joseph Smith Seeks Wisdom in the Bible (Joseph Smith Seeks Wisdom from the Bible)

Joseph Smith Translating (Joseph Smith Translating the Gold Plates), by Del Parson; Primary manual 5-14

Joseph Smith Translating (Joseph Smith Translating the Gold Plates)

An image from the video “A Day for the Eternities” depicting Joseph Smith translating the Book of Mormon, dictating the text to his scribe, Oliver Cowdery.

Joseph Smith dictates the Book of Mormon translation to Oliver Cowdery

Joseph Smith in Liberty Jail, by Greg K. Olsen; Primary manual 5-32

Joseph Smith in Liberty Jail

Joseph Smith’s First Vision, by Greg K. Olsen.

Joseph Smith’s First Vision

Joseph and Emma at the Hill Cumorah (Joseph Smith Brings the Gold Plates to the Carriage), by Robert T. Barrett; Primary manual 5-12

Joseph and Emma at the Hill Cumorah (Joseph Smith Brings the Gold Plates to the Carriage)

Joseph in Liberty Jail, by Liz Lemon Swindle; GAB 97; Our Heritage, 49–53; Doctrine and Covenants 121–23. © Liz Lemon Swindle: DO NOT COPY. This asset is for Church use and online viewing only.

Joseph in Liberty Jail

Martin Handcart Company—Bitter Creek, Wyoming, 1856, by Clark Kelley Price (62554); GAK 414; Primary manual 5-51

Martin Handcart Company—Bitter Creek, Wyoming, 1856

Martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum, by Gary E. Smith; Primary manual 5-40

Martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum

Mary Fielding Smith and Joseph F. Smith Crossing the Plains, by Glen S. Hopkinson (62608); GAK 412; GAB 101; Primary manual 5-49; Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph F. Smith (1998), xiv, 21–22

Mary Fielding Smith and Joseph F. Smith Crossing the Plains

Massacre of Mormons at Haun’s Mill, artist unknown

Massacre of Mormons at Haun’s Mill

Melchizedek Priesthood Restoration (The Restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood), by Kenneth Riley (62371); GAK 408; GAB 94; Primary manual 2-68; Primary manual 3-12; Primary manual 5-16; Doctrine and Covenants 27:12–13; 128:20; Joseph Smith—History 1:72

Melchizedek Priesthood Restoration (The Restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood)

Mormon Battalion

Mormon Emigrants Crossing the Plains in 1862, by Danquart Anthon Weggeland

Mormon Emigrants Crossing the Plains in 1862

Moroni Appears to Joseph Smith in His Room (The Angel Moroni Appears to Joseph Smith), by Tom Lovell (62492); GAK 404; GAB 91; Primary manual 3-32; Primary manual 4-55; Primary manual 5-08; Joseph Smith—History 1:27–47

Moroni Appears to Joseph Smith in His Room (The Angel Moroni Appears to Joseph Smith)

Of One Heart (Emma Crossing the Ice), by Liz Lemon Swindle; GAB 96; Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith (2007), 369. © Liz Lemon Swindle: DO NOT COPY. This asset is for Church use and online viewing only.

Of One Heart (Emma Crossing the Ice)

Organization of the Relief Society, by Nadine Barton

Organization of the Relief Society

A historical photograph showing a team of oxen pulling a small covered wagon.

Ox Team Pulling a Wagon

Pioneer Couple at Graves, by Michael T. Malm

Pioneer Couple at Graves

A painting of a pioneer girl by Julie Rogers.

Pioneer Girl

Pioneers Arrive by Ship in San Francisco Bay (Ship Brooklyn), by Arnold Friberg; GAK 421

Pioneers Arrive by Ship in San Francisco Bay (Ship Brooklyn)

Pioneers Arriving, by Minerva K. Teichert

Pioneers Arriving

Pioneers Catching Fish

Pioneers on a Ship

President Heber C. Kimball

Printing of the First Book of Mormon (Printing of the Book of Mormon), by Gary E. Smith; Primary manual 5-19

Printing of the First Book of Mormon (Printing of the Book of Mormon)

Promises to Elizabeth

Pushing, Pulling and Praying, Bound for Zion, by E. Kimball Warren

Pushing, Pulling and Praying, Bound for Zion

Remembering Nauvoo and Impressions of a Prophet, by John Luke

Remembering Nauvoo and Impressions of a Prophet

Revelation Given to Joseph Smith at the Organization of the Church, by Judith A. Mehr

Revelation Given to Joseph Smith at the Organization of the Church

Sacred Grove

Saving the Book of Commandments, by Clark Kelley Price (62605); GAK 409; Primary manual 5-24

Saving the Book of Commandments

Scripture Study on the Plains, by Lyle Beddes

Scripture Study on the Plains

Scriptures

Shall We Not Go On in So Great a Cause? by Clark Kelley Price

Shall We Not Go On in So Great a Cause?

Sisters in Zion

Sweetwater (Rest Stop at the Sweetwater), by Harold Hopkinson; Primary manual 5-50

Sweetwater (Rest Stop at the Sweetwater)

The Desires of My Heart

The Eight Witnesses

The First Vision

Joseph Smith Jr. kneeling in the Sacred Grove during the First Vision.

The First Vision, by Gary Kapp; GAB 90; nursery manual lesson 9, page 42; Joseph Smith—History 1:14–20; © Gary Kapp: DO NOT COPY. This asset is for Church use and online viewing only.

The First Vision, by Del Parson (62470); GAK 403; Primary manual 1-04; Primary manual 2-38; Primary manual 3-10; Primary manual 5-06; Primary manual 6-40; Primary manual 7-40; Joseph Smith—History 1:14–20

The Gold Plates; GAK 325; Primary manual 5-13; Alma 37:4

The Gold Plates

The Last Wagon

The Mormon Battalion, by William L. Maughan

The Mormon Battalion

The Prophet Joseph Loved Children, by Clark Kelley Price; GAK 420; Primary manual 5-34; 3 Nephi 9:22; Moroni 8:17

The Prophet Joseph Loved Children

The Sacred Grove

The Saints Crossing the Mississippi, by Grant Romney Clawson; GAK 410; Primary manual 1-61; Primary manual 5-41

The Saints Crossing the Mississippi

Trail of Sacrifice—Valley of Promise (Handcart Pioneers Approaching the Salt Lake Valley), by Clark Kelley Price; GAB 102; Our Heritage, 77–80

Trail of Sacrifice—Valley of Promise (Handcart Pioneers Approaching the Salt Lake Valley)

Winter Quarters, by Jonathan Leo Fairbanks; Primary manual 5-42

Winter Quarters

Winter Quarters, by C. C. A. Christensen; Primary manual 5-42

Working Together

Young Joseph Smith Tells His Family of His Hill Cumorah Experience (Joseph Smith Teaches His Family), by Robert T. Barrett; Primary manual 5-10

Young Joseph Smith Tells His Family of His Hill Cumorah Experience (Joseph Smith Teaches His Family)

Zion’s Camp (Zion’s Camp at Fishing River), by Judith A. Mehr (62033); Primary manual 5-27

Zion’s Camp (Zion’s Camp at Fishing River)

Images

Church History—All Gospel Art

Winter Quarters, by C. C. A. Christensen; Primary manual 5-42 

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