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  • The wonderful two-headed nightingale : "the eighth wonder of the world" / Horns Assembly Rooms, Kennington.
  • Millie Christine : the two headed nightingale ...
  • [Newspaper clipping (from the Illustrated Times, 3 October 1868) about 'Dr. Nelaton and the Siamese Twins' Chang and Eng].
  • Samar (Siamese) twins : two boys six years old, joined together for life.
  • [Undated newspaper cutting (March 1869) advertising The Nova Scotia Giantess, Anna Swan, the Siamese twins and the Circassian Lady at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London].
  • [Leaflet advertising exhibition of the curious history of Julia Pastrana, "The Baboon Lady" and the live two-in-one, or, double-bodied boy at Dr. Kahn's Museum. The boy is shown in the illustration. Julia Pastrana was also giving 'levees' at the Regent Gallery 3 times a day].
  • The greatest phenomenon of nature! : To be seen at 238, High Holborn, for a short time only, a child (born alive) with two faces, four eyes, two mouths, two noses, two ears and two chins ... with only one head and body.
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by The Lancashire Prodigy, a male child with 2 bodies and 1 head at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London. Born 27 May 1837].
  • [Newspaper clipping (1868?) featuring a portrait of 'The Siamese Twins' Chang and Eng].
  • Distinta relazione delle presenti meravigliose figure nate nel contado di Pavia : in Milano, ed in Bologna M.DCC.XLVIII.
  • [Illustrated leaflet advertising appearances by "De Tweelingen van Siam", Chang and Eng, in Amsterdam, June 1836. May 1837].
  • [Undated newspaper cutting (March 1869) advertising The Nova Scotia Giantess, Anna Swan, the Siamese twins and the Circassian Lady at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London].
  • [Small handbill advertising Millie Christine, the Two-Headed Nightingale, and Harvey's Midges (smallest people in the world), appearing at the Piccadilly Hall, London].
  • [Illustrated handbill advertising an appearance of Christina and Millie McCoy, 'The African Twins' (or Two-Headed Nightingale) at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London on 17 September 1855 (in bold type). They were conjoined twin girls, born in North Carolina in 1851. Their mother was a slave].
  • Galyon siamese twins : no.1 phenomenal sensation of the show world : two heads, four arms, four legs, one body : Donnie, Ronnie, alive.
  • Mr. Smith's exhibition : to be seen twihin, the Norfolk Giant 17 years of age, 7 feet 2 inches high, and weighs 20 stone, also the African Lady! in her native costume ... also Tom Thumb, the celebrated dwarf, also the extraordinary wonder of the creation, the infant male child & its mother with 2 perfect heads and necks on one body ...
  • [Illustrated handbill advertising an appearance of Christina and Millie McCoy, 'The African Twins' (or Two-Headed Nightingale) at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London on 17 September 1855 (in lighter type). They were conjoined twin girls, born in North Carolina in 1851. Their mother was a slave].
  • [Undated handbill (1891? printed in Glasgow) advertising an exhibition of the conjoined twin, Lalloo, a 17 year old Indian boy and his twin (growing out of his breastbone)].
  • Distinta relazione delle presenti meravigliose figure nate nel contado di Pavia : in Milano, ed in Bologna M.DCC.XLVIII.
  • Galyon siamese twins : no.1 phenomenal sensation of the show world : two heads, four arms, four legs, one body : Donnie, Ronnie, alive.
  • Gruss von dem Wundermädchen Bianka aus Italien.
  • Advertisement : To all gentlemen and ladies . There are newly arriv'd two monstrous girls, being one of the greatest wonders in nature that was ever seen ; they were born with their backs fasten'd to one another, and the passages of their bodies are both one way ...
  • The two-headed girl : death of the double-headed Girl : duplex child - Rita-Christina.
  • [Reprint of a 1736 "small hand bill, in the British Museum" about a boy and girl, conjoined twins, with 2 heads, 3 arms and 3 legs on display at the Rummer in Three Kings Court, Fleet Street, London].
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by "A twin boy with one body, two heads, four arms and four legs" at 139 The Strand, London].
  • [Small print (1860?) of Christina and Millie McCoy, 'The African Twins' (or Two-Headed Nightingale) conjoined twin girls, born in North Carolina in 1851. Their mother was a slave].
  • Extraordinary birth / A.I.H.
  • Violet and Daisy : English Siamese twins : "if we have interested you kindly tell your friends to visit us.".
  • [Small print (1860?) of Christina and Millie McCoy, 'The African Twins' (or Two-Headed Nightingale) conjoined twin girls, born in North Carolina in 1851. Their mother was a slave].
  • The Cuban Twins : Guadalupe and Josefina : born in Havana, Cuba, November 15th, 1912.