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![[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].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28549557_EPH_499B_8_0001.jp2/full/420%2C/0/default.jpg)
![[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].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28480272_EPH_499A_48_0001.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
