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Keep in mind that 95% of viral "Unknown picture of a famous moment you've never seen before" posts on the internet are not actually they thing they claim they a
by ageitgey 5y ago
Keep in mind that 95% of viral "Unknown picture of a famous moment you've never seen before" posts on the internet are not actually they thing they claim they are. This is definitely not a picture of Charles Ebbets taking the "Lunch atop a skyscaper" photo.
That doesn't mean they aren't cool pictures or interesting in their own right, but don't believe any title you see on a reddit post.
Edit: And this is not to pick on reddit in particular. Even historians make these mistakes. Here's a time I found a respected historian making published (but incorrect) claim of the date people started using Christmas cards because the highly respected newspaper archive he was using for research had mis-dated the scanned pages of a newspaper under '1800s' instead of '1900s': https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/k6inyt/ive_always_heard_that_the_christmas_cards_were/gele4k9/?context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/k6inyt/ive_a...
- MaxLeiter 5y agoYou say “definitely not” so surely. It may not be, but if you’re going to disprove a claim you should probably provide something to back it up, especially if the claim itself has no proof. It’s easy to read your comment and believe you, but it’s just as easy to read the post and believe it.
- cerved 5y agoyou'll find comments in the post explaining that he's facing the wrong direction