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[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].

[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].

Chang and Eng the Siamese twins, as old men. Aquatint.

[Cutting from the Britsh medical journal: "A lecture on the psychology of conjoined twins: a study of monsterhood". Daisy and Violet Hilton are shown].

Chang and Eng Bunker. Oil painting by Edouard-Henri-Théophile Pingret, 1836.

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.

Andenken an Emilisa Stoll : die Kopf an Kopf zusammengeachsenen Zwillinge : geb. am 7. Januar 1912 zu Vilbel bei Frankfurt a. M. / Impresario Otto Heinemann, Charlottenburg, Schlüterstr. 12.

The Cuban Twins : Guadalupe and Josefina : born in Havana, Cuba, November 15th, 1912.

[Illustrated leaflet advertising appearances by "Siamese youths, united brothers", Chang and Eng, at 15 Poultry, London in their 19th year].

[Newspaper clipping (from the Illustrated Times, 3 October 1868) about 'Dr. Nelaton and the Siamese Twins' Chang and Eng].

The zodiac man. Watercolour painting by a Persian artist.

Chang and Eng, the Siamese twins, in evening dress. Colour wood engraving by H.S. Miller.

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.

Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.

[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].

Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, dressed for golf. Photograph, c. 1927.

Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, taking tea. Photograph, 1927.

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Twins, Conjoined

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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.

Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.

Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, dressed for golf. Photograph, c. 1927.

Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, taking tea. Photograph, 1927.

Twins, Conjoined

Images from the collections

Images referencing Twins, Conjoined

Works from the collections

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.

Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.

Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, dressed for golf. Photograph, c. 1927.

Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, taking tea. Photograph, 1927.

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