A picture of three children working at a gold mine in Canada about the year 1898, went this week around the world.
the Image is located in the on-line photo archive at the University of Washington, and went suddenly, after 121 years, virally, because one of the kids has a striking resemblance with the Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg.
It was this picture of three children at a gold mine in Canada, which this week got the conspiracy theorists to block his eyes. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix
According to the International Business Times began the image to flourish, after the Youtube channel ArtAlien TV had discussed it in a video. But originally it was the picture that is, in a repository at the University of Washington’s website, along with the 816 other old images by photographer Eric A. Hegg.
the Girl’s almost uncanny resemblance quickly got spawned several ‘theories’ about whether the Swedish Greta Thunberg, in fact, is a time traveler.
So, ‘Greta Thunberg’ is in a photo from 120 years ago, and it’s my new favourite conspiracy. Greta’s a time traveller, from the future, and she’s here to save us. pic.twitter.com/5ObTjPFXvk
— Jack – J. S. Strange (@JackSamStrange) November 18, 2019
That has to be photoshopped surely, they’re identical
— Galar Champion Jack (@JackBwin) November 18, 2019
Greta Thunberg’s a time traveller…https://t.co/dKnoY8GgEN
— Tess Summers #FTEU (@tesssummers98) November 18, 2019
Several wrote that they were convinced that the image had been manipulated, because the girl is basically identical with the living young swede.
Both parts have now been definitively rebutted in a blogopslag at the University of Washington’s library’s website.
‘The picture in question is original. It is one of many pictures taken by photographer Eric A. Hegg (1867-1947)’ write library among other things.
the Girl’s name is still unknown
But then who is the young girl by the canadian gold mine, have several in the course of recent days asked. The answer comes, unfortunately, we are not closer to the library post.
the Archive is not inside with the other information than the photographer’s name and the title of the image, ‘Reviews operating gold mines on Dominion. Klondyke, YT’.
‘Hegg-the collection was a part of the library’s special collection in the 1960s, prior to modern accounting, which threw the light of more detailed information, such as who donated the collection, or its previous ownership’, writes the university library.
‘Conspiracy theories or not, so we are pleased that the collection will get the attention, because it underscores the historical importance of the images as well as the important role libraries and other archives to play’, says Lisa Oberg, who is director of the university’s collection of pictures, in the post.
Greta Thunberg has not yet commented on the case of the canadian doppelganger.
