Jason Steinhauer

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The curious case of a viral vintage newsreel

In the world of e-history, a good meme always trumps accuracy

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Jason Steinhauer
Jul 31, 2022
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Recently, a piece of e-history went viral. It was a vintage newsreel that claimed to show a 3-year-old chimney sweep and his father in the 1930s. I saw it on Twitter:

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