Vintage Hoax Pictures

Hoaxed Photos of Earlier Times
PHOTO GALLERY**Baby Adolf **The picture on the left was widely printed in newspapers throughout the 1930s. It was represented as being a snapshot of Adolf Hitler as a baby. Sometime in 1937 Mrs. Harriet Downs, of Westport, Conn., noticed the image in a magazine and recognized it as an altered baby photo of her own son, John May Warren. The original, unretouched picture is shown on the right. It is not known how the hoaxer obtained the original picture.Hoax Photo Gallery. In the days before Photoshop.