Twins, Conjoined
![[Handbill advertising The Edmonton twins: conjoined twins on exhibition at the Adelaide Gallery in the Lowther Arcade, London. The twins were born on 30 January 1855].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28480429_0001.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![[Leaflet advertising appearances by "Two children united from the umbilical chord to the top of the breast bone", born January 1833 and being exhibited at The Rotunda, Blackfriars Road, London].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28546428_EPH_499C_17_0001.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![[Cutting from the Britsh medical journal: "A lecture on the psychology of conjoined twins: a study of monsterhood". Daisy and Violet Hilton are shown].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28550420_EPH_499B_95_0004.jp2/full/320%2C/0/default.jpg)
![First tour in Great Britain : during the fair, £1,000 challenge to the world! to produce the equal of Lallo [sic], the greatest living wonder in the world : a native of Lucknow, central India : Lalloo... simply a boy and girl joined together... / James Norman and M.D. Francis, proprietors.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0063554/full/160%2C/0/default.jpg)
![[Illustrated leaflet advertising appearances by "Siamese youths, united brothers", Chang and Eng, at 15 Poultry, London in their 19th year].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28546416_EPH_499C_16_0001.jp2/full/320%2C/0/default.jpg)
![[Newspaper clipping (from the Illustrated Times, 3 October 1868) about 'Dr. Nelaton and the Siamese Twins' Chang and Eng].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28479890_EPH_499A_38_0002.jp2/full/600%2C/0/default.jpg)
Works from the collections
254 works
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Anne-Marie Hérig, a girl with a skin abnormality; the conjoined twins Judith and Hélène; below, an infant with one central eye. Coloured etching by N.E. Lerouge after J. de Sève.
Date: 1840Reference: 3871i- Ephemera
Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.
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[Newspaper cutting (1871? The Times?) about an appearance of Christina and Millie McCoy, 'The African Twins' or Two-Headed Nightingale (with Anna Swan, the Nova Scotian Giantess and Captain Bates, a Kentucky Giant). They were conjoined twin girls, born in North Carolina in 1851. Their mother was a slave].
Date: 1871
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Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, dressed for golf. Photograph, c. 1927.
Date: 1930Reference: 33709i
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Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, taking tea. Photograph, 1927.
Date: 1930Reference: 33683i