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  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, head and shoulders, wearing fur coats. Photograph, c. 1927.
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, one sewing, one using a typewriter. Photograph, c. 1927.
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, trying on hats in a hat shop. Photograph, c. 1927.
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, dressed for bed, kneeling to say their prayers. Photograph, c. 1927.
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, wearing swimsuits, posing as though about to dive. Photograph, c. 1927.
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, sitting on a small grand piano, holding ukeleles. Photograph, c. 1927.
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances in London by The Brothers Tocci, conjoined twins, born in Locana, Italy in 1877].
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances in London by The Brothers Tocci, conjoined twins, born in Locana, Italy in 1877].
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, with the Meyers, with whom they lived and who managed them. Photograph, c. 1927.
  • Josefa Blažek and Rosalia Blažek (Rosa Blažek), female conjoined twins, seated, holding Franzl, the baby of Rosa. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • [Cutting from The Lancet of 7 January 1928 proposing surgery in cases of conjoined twins, James Poro and Laloo are shown].
  • Two diagrams of conjoined twins, a foetus with a deformed head and face and an interior of a chest with two hearts. Line engraving.
  • [Cutting from the Britsh medical journal: "A lecture on the psychology of conjoined twins: a study of monsterhood". Daisy and Violet Hilton are shown].
  • [Cutting from the Britsh medical journal: "A lecture on the psychology of conjoined twins: a study of monsterhood". Daisy and Violet Hilton are shown].
  • [Cutting from the Britsh medical journal: "A lecture on the psychology of conjoined twins: a study of monsterhood". Daisy and Violet Hilton are shown].
  • [Cutting from the Britsh medical journal: "A lecture on the psychology of conjoined twins: a study of monsterhood". Daisy and Violet Hilton are shown].
  • [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].
  • [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].
  • [Folded leaflet (turquoise paper - copies on purple paper exist) advertising appearances of 'The Pygopagi Twins', Josepha and Rosalie Blazek, conjoined twins, in some sort of performance at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London, in late 1880. The "Bohemian" twins were under the patronage of the Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and other distinguished personages. The twins both died at the age of 45. ].
  • [Folded leaflet (turquoise paper - copies on purple paper exist) advertising appearances of 'The Pygopagi Twins', Josepha and Rosalie Blazek, conjoined twins, in some sort of performance at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London, in late 1880. The "Bohemian" twins were under the patronage of the Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and other distinguished personages. The twins both died at the age of 45. ].
  • [Folded leaflet (purple paper - copies on turquoise paper exist) advertising appearances of 'The Pygopagi Twins', Josepha and Rosalie Blazek, conjoined twins, in some sort of performance at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London, in late 1880. The "Bohemian" twins were under the patronage of the Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and other distinguished personages. The twins both died at the age of 45. ].
  • [Folded leaflet (purple paper - copies on turquoise paper exist) advertising appearances of 'The Pygopagi Twins', Josepha and Rosalie Blazek, conjoined twins, in some sort of performance at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London, in late 1880. The "Bohemian" twins were under the patronage of the Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and other distinguished personages. The twins both died at the age of 45. ].
  • 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.
  • Professors considering whether a pair of conjoined twins should be separated after the death of one of them; representing a political discussion in Bradford about the separation of two factions (?). Coloured lithograph, 1868.
  • [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].
  • [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].
  • [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].
  • [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].
  • Conjoined twin piglets
  • A diagram of a Siamese twin with conjoined spine