Don Bradley reprints a photograph of a surviving Kinderhook Plate.
Photo of surviving Kinderhook Plate, in Don Bradley and Mark Ashurst-McGee, "'President Joseph Has Translated a Portion': Joseph Smith and the Mistranslation of the Kinderhook Plates," in Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith’s Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity, ed. Michael Hubbard Mackay, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Brian M. Hauglid (Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 2020), 453 (Figure 17.1)
[Photo caption]: Kinderhook plate. Sole surviving Kinderhook plate, one of six brass plates fabricated in 1843, planted in a Native American burial mound, and then unearthed as part of an archaeological hoax modelled on the gold plates of the Book of Mormon. Left: Front. Right: Back. Chicago History Museum, Chicago, Illinois.