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This photograph is circulating on social media with the title, "Appalachian Family in Asheville, North Carolina 1930's".

That title is incorrect.

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This photograph is one being shared as a "Black Family-a mother and her children" We aren't saying that it's not, because "family" can be different for many, but this image is not what people are assuming it is.
Here is what we found out.

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Left: This meme or a version of it is circling throughout social media, and it is not correct. @IrememberOurHistory®

What is wrong about this is the man pictured is not inventor Mr. Albert C. Richardson, this is Mr. Ian Matzeliger who was also an inventor.

The images of a casket lowering device were invented by Mr. Albert C. Richardson.

To date, there are no known verified photographs of Mr. Albert C. Richardson.

Many people on social media continue to share this image of a Civil War Soldier and say it's Cathay Williams, there is no proof that this is her.

Chicago's First All Black Engine Company No. 21 Was Organized in 1872.

Social media posts are being shared that say a Black Chicago fire fighter named David B. Kenyon invented the first "Fire Pole". That is not completely true.

The Captain of the first All Black fire station in Chicago was a white man named David B. Kenyon (1836 – 1884).

Though this looks to be a sweet family moment, it is a staged scene. The photograph was used to spread racist visual humor so that the desired social perception of Black Americans continued to stay the same.

Left Image: This is Not Henry Blair. This is Edward A. Bouchet, who was a physicist and educator and was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from any American university, completing his dissertation in physics at Yale in 1876.

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There are no known verified images of Ellen F. Eglin. We are using her 1888 design drawings for her clothes wringer invention.

Ellen F. Elgin did not submit her idea designs, she sold them. The buyer submitted the designs to the USPTO.

This is Gladys Mae West one of the hidden figures Black women.
The top photograph is being used in social media posts about Ellen F. Eglin (born ca. 1849?. death date is unknown) who was an African American woman inventor who modified an existing invention of a clothes wringer for washing machines.
There are no known verified images of Ellen F. Elgin.

This image is being shared on the internet as being Harriet Tubman’s mother, Harriet “Rit” Greene Ross.

There is no proof we can find that it is a photograph of Rit Green Ross, Harriet Tubman’s mother.
Harriet "Rit" Greene Ross was born about 1785 or 1787 in Dorchester County, Maryland.

Many people share this image and identify the woman dressed in white and Harriet Tubman, but that is not her.
See below for names and order of people in this photograph.

A Black man did not design the automobile Cadillac

Top left: The man's image is Not Isaac R. Johnson. There aren't any verified known images nor photographs of the Inventor, Isaac R. Johnson to date.

"The man is NOT chef James Hemings, enslaved to Thomas Jefferson. And he is NOT chef Hercules Posey, enslaved to George Washington. (In fact, he's also NOT wearing a chef's hat!)

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Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard (October 11, 1861 – October 21, 1924) was a Black American poet and teacher.

NOTE: Josephine H. Heard's life story is being shared on social media with the bottom image of an unknown Black woman.* Image description at the bottom of this information.*

Words on image: Jupiter Hammon (October 17, 1711 – c. 1806) was born into slavery at the Lloyd Manor on Long Island, NY. Hammon learned to read and write. He was enslaved by the Lloyd family his entire life, under four generations of the family members.
(There are no known images of him).

Kendall Scott, a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, performs an Eastern blanket dance. The blanket draped over her shoulder, or similar ones, is part of the dance, which she said represents "a young woman going through life. 11 Photo credit: Merrily Cassidy/Cape Cod Times

Don't believe everything you learned in school about the Pilgrims and the Native people who met them.

Correcting Identities: Image, This is Not Nathaniel Alexander.
This is Lewis Howard Latimer. (September 4, 1848 – December 11, 1928).

While both were Black inventors, there is NO verified image of Nathaniel Alexander to date.

CORRECTING IDENTITIES - This image on the Left is being shared on social media and is Wrong!
By using Mr. Lunsford Lane’s (May 30, 1803 – June 27, 1879 - a Black enslaved man who bought his freedom) image to lie and say he invented Vicks Vapor Rub is Willfully Erasing His Actual Life Story.

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We see social media posts with these two women saying they are the same person. They are not.

The woman on the left is Mary Jane Patterson, born enslaved in Raleigh, NC. September 12, 1840, and died September 24, 1894 (aged 54) in Washington, D.C.
The woman on the right is Mary Jane Patterson, born on February 12th, 1924, in Marietta, Ohio and died April 8th, 2009.

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The image with this post has been circulating for years claiming to be Mary Bowser, the Union spy. It is not her, but is of another Black woman also named Mary Bowser who was born several decades after Mary Jane Richards Bowser.

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Image: Note: There are no verified images of Mr. Nathaniel Alexander. -end note-

On July 7, 1911 Nathaniel Alexander of Lynchburg, Virginia patented a folding chair. His design was not the first one for a folding chair in the United States.

Every few months people on social media spread posts with the woman on the left of our photo collage, and say it's Phyllis Wheatley, but it is Not Phyllis Wheatley.

The woman on the left of our image is Omoba Aina, renamed Sarah Forbes Bonetta Davies.
Phyllis Wheatley is the image on the right.

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NOTE: After spending much time looking through multiple sites with posts about Osborn Dorsey, we've determined most of those sites do not have correct information.

The information about Osborn Dorsey's life we are using in this post we found on a blog, by a person who did extensive research looking for the information we are using in this Correcting Identities Post.
-End Note-

Words on image: This is not Jupiter Hammon. There are no images of Hammon, which would have been in the form of a painting, drawing or print, not a photograph.
This is a photograph of Paul L. Dunbar, circa 1890.

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Richard B. Spikes, Inventor
October 2, 1878-January 22, 1963 (aged 84)

Note: We are not able to find a verified photograph of Mr. Spikes. The bottom image is Not Mr. Spikes but is being shared as him*

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We @IrememberOurHistory® are seeing social media posts about Mr. Robert F. Flemming Jr. (1839–1919) who created a different kind of guitar.

The images used saying this is what he looked like in these posts are Not of Mr. Robert F. Flemming.
So far we have not found any verified photographs of Mr. Robert F. Flemming.

The images in these posts about Mr. Robert F. Flemming are of Mr. Jan Ernst Matzeliger -bottom image-
who was born Sept. 15, 1852, Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana [now Suriname] whodied Aug. 24, 1889, Lynn, Mass., U.S. .

Top Left Image: Sarah Boone's patent drawing for improvements to the ironing board. Mrs. Sarah Boone (Boon) born Sarah Marshall was born in 1832, near New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. Sarah died in 1904 (aged 71–72), in New Haven, Connecticut.

The Truth About Sojourner Truth's 1851 Speech, "Ain't I A Woman?"

"I am a woman's rights"
~Sojourner Truth

The Truth About Sojourner Truth's 1851 Speech, "Ain't I A Woman?"

"I am a woman's rights"
~Sojourner Truth