A well known language poet posted on Facebook a bogus story about women more than 100 years ago organizing floating libraries on the Mississippi. The story and the photos are very obviously fake. I looked around a bit and there is a lot of this fakery going around. There's another one about Appalachian heroic women librarians in the depression riding around on horses to distribute books.
What's the give away? It's more than one thing, of course, but it doesn't look like any photo from 1904. I find this sad and hilarious at the same time.
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