Emma Smith
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Emma Hale Smith Bidamon was a leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement and a prominent member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints as well as the first wife of Joseph Smith, the movement's founder. In 1842, when the Ladies' Relief Society of Nauvoo was formed as a women's service organization, she was elected by its members as the organization's first president.
Statue of Joseph and Emma Smith in Salt Lake City
Emma Smith in riding habit in Nauvoo. Emma and other women of Nauvoo would sometimes accompany the Nauvoo Legion on horseback.
Emma Smith, painted by Lee Greene Richards
Golden plates
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According to Latter Day Saint belief, the golden plates are the source from which Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon, a sacred text of the faith. Some accounts from people who reported handling the plates describe the plates as weighing from 30 to 60 pounds, gold in color, and composed of thin metallic pages engraved with hieroglyphics on both sides and bound with three D-shaped rings.
A 21st-century artistic representation of Joseph Smith translating the golden plates by examining a seer stone in his hat.
A 21st-century artistic representation of the Golden plates, Urim and Thummim, Sword of Laban, and Liahona
Full-scale model of the golden plates based on Joseph Smith's description