The photo in the centre has been shared all over the internet countless times with the suggestion that it is a wartime picture of a Jewish girl. Analysing historical images is what I do as a job, I’ve seen a huge amount of WW2 photos and I knew that this was not one of them. … More NOT a WW2 photo of a Jewish girl
In 1872, Ms. Charlotte E. Ray (later Mrs. Fraim) (January 13, 1850 – January 4, 1911) became the first black woman in the USA to practice law.She was 27 at the time.Unfortunately there is no known photograph of her, only a drawing.For some peculiar reason people have started sharing pictures of other women claiming them … More NOT Charlotte E. Ray
Another picture that is shared online with the claims that this is a genuine WW1 photo showing a real soldier in a terrible situation. Often with titles such as “This photo of an unknown soldier captures the horrors of WWI perfectly” or “Australian soldier sitting in the Mud with his head in his hand on … More NOT a real WW1 soldier in the mud
This photo has gone around on social media for a long time, claiming to be a genuine WW1 era photo of soldier suffering from shell shock in the trenches. As someone who analyses old photos for a living I immediately felt that something was off, it just didn’t look right. This time it didn’t take … More NOT a real WW1 soldier with shell shock
NOT a Congo hanging in 1908 This horrible picture has been shared countless times all over the internet for over a decade. A group of men, partially uniformed, surround a little black boy who is standing on a wooden block. He appears to have a noose around his neck and is about to be hanged. … More NOT a Congo hanging in 1908
The black and white picture of “Madam Moll” an 1920s bank robber with her machine-gun has been going around the internet for almost a decade and is clearly a modern fake but now and then someone still seems to think it is real.Every time it is shared online there are usually a few people in … More NOT Madam Moll an 1920s Bank robber
This photo (often titled “The last kiss” is shared all over the internet as a World War Two photo, a dramatic moment of sailors kissing their sweethearts just before being shipped off to the front. It is not. Although a great picture, it is not from the 1940s.As someone who analyses old photos as part … More NOT a photo of sailors saying goodbye during WW2
This photo has been shared online with the claim that itshows a resistance fighter during the Second World War grabbing a gun (Sturmgewehr 44) from a dead German soldier. It does not. When I first saw it I was impressed and fascinated, I’ve studied the resistance during WW2 for decades, one of the subjects I … More NOT a WW2 photo of a partisan taking a gun
This picture can be found online with the claim that it dates back to 1936 and shows a Nazi themed advertisement for Coca Cola. The picture was and still is widely used on social media as a way to point out alleged hypocrisy of the brand by placing it next to an 2019 Coca-Cola label … More NOT an 1930s Nazi advertisement for Coca-Cola
This photo is shared online as being a photo of Greta Garbo or as a genuine vintage photo showing another (unknown) actress. It is not. This is the original, in the bottom right corner you can see some text that’s someone removed before sharing it online; The text is the description and price of what … More NOT Greta Garbo
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