Backwards! What?

Question

So, I'm trying to clean up a couple profiles, which looks like they got made in a hurry (probably during a Thon) and I'm adding in a biography and primary sources.  Then I find this:

How does one justify this?   (From Family Search)

Holmes. Census • FamilySearch  I tried using a mirror to read it.  I need to brush up on "backwards" LOL

Comments

I tried paging thru on the Census Schedule, it does appear correctly, too.  But why or how could it get in there as a mirror image?

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That's so bizarre! I found the census page on Ancestry, and it's backwards there as well! I feel bad for whoever had to index it....

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Ha ha ha! That reminds me when I was in the Army, they taught us to write backward to update those situation boards (where they tracked enemy positions). I already knew how to write backwards, upside down, and unside down and backwards. I was surprised that everyone couldn't do this!

Answer 1

I think most photo editing programs have a function to flip an image horizontally or vertically, so my guess would be that's probably what happened to this one.  Another horizontal flip fixes it.