Altering photos in a pre-digital age A photo of President Lincoln's head was placed on the image of Southern politician John Calhoun ...

Altering photos in a pre-digital age

A photo of President Lincoln's head was placed on the image of Southern politician John Calhoun to create the portrait on the left.

Adolf Hitler had Joseph Goebbels (second from the right) removed from the original photograph after a falling out.

Perhaps in an attempt to not have his presence dwarfed, Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King had King George VI removed from the original photograph of him and Queen Elizabeth.

The horse handler was removed from this portrait of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini to appear more heroic.

Russian magazine Ogoniok had the watch removed from a WWII soldier's arm as to avoid accusations it may have been stolen (as he is wearing another watch on left wrist as well).

The photograph of Ulysses S. Grant on the left is actually a composite of these three different photographs pieced together.

General Francis P. Blair (on the far right end) was added to this Matthew Brady photograph at a later date.

In a pre-digital age artists and publications alike still found ways to manipulate images through stitching photographs together and other various darkroom techniques.

(Agencies)