Origin A photograph from 1898 that features a young girl who bares a striking resemblance to 21st-century environmental activist Greta Thunberg is frequently circulated on social media along with the claim that Thunberg is a time traveler: The image on the left is a genuine photograph taken in 1898. It does not, however, feature Greta Thunberg. When claims about Thunberg being a time traveler first went viral in 2019, the University of Washington Library, which has the physical copy of this 1898 image in its archive, published a blog post about the photo’s origin. The library reported that this photograph was real and Thunberg’s image was not digitally added, as some internet users claimed.