Doctored Photo Fun!

[TallTallMan]

Now here's a fun little game: post your favorite fake CW photograph. I'll start things off with Grant at City Point:

 

[MRB1863]

Gettysburg, PA

 

[TallTallMan]

Gettysburg, PA
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Funny, but I mean wartime photos that are spread as real but aren't.

 

[TallTallMan]

Here's the "Civil War pterodactyl/Thunderbird" image. This one was popular on the internet for a while, until debunked here:

ELUCIDATING THE TWO 'CIVIL WAR PTERODACTYL' THUNDERBIRD PHOTOGRAPHS

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[MRB1863]

Funny, but I mean wartime photos that are spread as real but aren't.

OOPS! Misinterpreted it, should I remove it??

 

[USS ALASKA]

https://listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/8-civil-war-elephants.jpg

Was this taken during the Atlanta Campaign? Just kidding...

Best Worst Photo Shopped, Faux And Just Plain Silly Images | Period Photos & Examinations

" The Lincoln Wedding Photograph " isn't. Someone glued together portraits taken separately and ' poof ', History! They're spreading. It's like lice without a good shampoo eradicating the little vermin. It's always been a puzzle why anyone would create a photo shopped image or just, plain make...

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Cheers,
USS ALASKA

 

[TallTallMan]

OOPS! Misinterpreted it, should I remove it??

Nah, it's fine.

 

[TallTallMan]

Found out this thread already existed. Moving there.

Best Worst Photo Shopped, Faux And Just Plain Silly Images | Period Photos & Examinations

" The Lincoln Wedding Photograph " isn't. Someone glued together portraits taken separately and ' poof ', History! They're spreading. It's like lice without a good shampoo eradicating the little vermin. It's always been a puzzle why anyone would create a photo shopped image or just, plain make...

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[farrargirl]

Now here's a fun little game: post your favorite fake CW photograph. I'll start things off with Grant at City Point:

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Civil War Glass Negatives and Related Prints - Solving a Civil War Photograph Mystery - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (Library of Congress)

Solving a Civil War Photograph Mystery http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2007681056/ Is this photo fact or fiction? The title information on the bottom left corner of the print says “General Grant at City Point,” so the image claims to show General Ulysses S. Grant on horseback, in front of his...

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Check this out….

 

[stu613]

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https://listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/8-civil-war-elephants.jpg

Was this taken during the Atlanta Campaign? Just kidding...

Best Worst Photo Shopped, Faux And Just Plain Silly Images | Period Photos & Examinations

" The Lincoln Wedding Photograph " isn't. Someone glued together portraits taken separately and ' poof ', History! They're spreading. It's like lice without a good shampoo eradicating the little vermin. It's always been a puzzle why anyone would create a photo shopped image or just, plain make...

civilwartalk.com

Cheers,
USS ALASKA

Not Atlanta, I am guessing this was taken in Tuscaloosa, Alabama!

 

[farrargirl]

I'm sorry. I just couldn't help myself

 

[Robert Gray]

Here's an interesting head swap. The first two photos are well-known images of Richard Ewell and Jubal Early. In the third picture, published in Miller's Photographic History of the Civil War, Ewell's head has been replaced by Early's. An unknown photographer must have had some reason for doing this. I guess we'll never know.