What's wrong with this picture?
William Marvel does it again! In yesterday's Conway Daily Sun, he re-attributes the names of the boys in this picture from the Conway Public Library's Henney History Room collection. (click on image to enlarge it and read his argument).
Here is an image of the back of the original photo helping to see how the handwriting could have been misread.
As we reviewed in a previous blog what passes for history can change due to new insights or research such as that done by Mr. Marvel.
We welcome this kind of community involvement in getting our history correct. We invite anyone with an interest in history to join our volunteer group, for a part of a day, or on an ongoing basis. We have a large back log of items to scan, research, and post in our online collection. We have many photographs that have unidentified people in them. Perhaps you could give some of these anonymous faces a name!
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