Martin Van Buren Bates

American giant (1839-1919)

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Images featuring Martin Van Buren Bates

7 images from works
  • [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].
  • The giants wedding.
  • For a short time only, commencing Monday, July 17th : the wonderful Two-Headed Nightingale Company ... also Miss Anna Swan the famous Nova-Scotian Giantess ... Capt. M. V. Bates the great Kentucky Giant.
  • For a short time only, commencing Monday, July 17th : the wonderful Two-Headed Nightingale Company ... also Miss Anna Swan the famous Nova-Scotian Giantess ... Capt. M. V. Bates the great Kentucky Giant.
  • The giants wedding.
  • [Newspaper clipping (The Standard, 1 June 1871) about Millie Christine, the Two-Headed Nightingale, Anna Swan, the Nova Scotian giantess and Captain George Martin van Buren Bates, the great Kentucky giant, appearing at Willis's Rooms, King Street, St. James's, London].
  • The marriage of Captain Martin van Buren to Anna Swan. Wood engraving, 1871.

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Related topics

Giants (Folklore)
Twins, Conjoined
Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities
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