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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.
Date: 1840Reference: 3871i
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Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.
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[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].
Date: 1871
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Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, dressed for golf. Photograph, c. 1927.
Date: 1930Reference: 33709i
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Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, taking tea. Photograph, 1927.
Date: 1930Reference: 33683i
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Harry H. Hargrave presents Guadalupe and Josefina Hinojosa : siamese twin girls born grown together in Havana, Cuba, November 15, 1912.
Date: [1915?]
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[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. ].
Date: 1880
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[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].
Date: 1869
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Two human figures with abnormalities
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A short, but concise account of Elisabeth and Mary Chulkhurst, who were born joined together by the hips and shoulders, in the year of our Lord 1100, at Biddenden, in the county of Kent : commonly called the Biddenden Maids.
Date: 1805
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̄Fæt Sayām ʻIn-Čhan khon khū sū chīwit / [Wilāt Niransuksiri].
Wilāt NiransuksiriDate: 2549 [2006]
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Craniopagus.
Date: 1967
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Report of an autopsy on the bodies of Chang and Eng Bunker, commonly known as the Siamese twins / by Harrison Allen.
Harrison AllenDate: 1875
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An historical account of the Siamese twin brothers, from actual observations.
Hale, James W.Date: 1834
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Twins in history and science / by Luigi Gedda ; translated by Marco Milani-Comparetti ; foreword by Robert M. Stecher.
Luigi GeddaDate: 1961
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A True relation of a monstrous female-child, with two heads, four eyes, four ears, two noses, two mouths, and four arms, four legs, and all things else proportionably, fixed to one body : born about the 19 of May last, at a village called Ill-Brewers near Taunton Dean in Somerset-shire : likewise a true and perfect account of its form so prodigiously strange ... / as it was faithfully communicated in a letter, by a person of worth, living in Taunton-Dean, to a gentleman here in London.
Date: [1680?]
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Natures wonder? Or, [An ac]count how the wife of one John Waterman an ostler ... was delivered of a strage monster upon the 26th of October 1664 : ... It had two heads, foure armes, and two legs ... She had another child born before it ...which is yet living, and is a very comely child in all proportions. This is attested for truth, by several persons which were eye witnesses. The tune is, London prentice: Or, Jovial batchelor.
Date: [1664]
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Freak shows ephemera. Box 3.
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Chang and Eng the Siamese twins, in an oriental setting. Lithograph, 1830.
Date: Jany [1830]Reference: 2615i
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Chang and Eng the Siamese twins, aged eighteen, with badminton rackets. Coloured engraving by JLB, 1829.
Date: December 1829Reference: 2610i
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A true and certaine relation of a strange-birth : which was borne at Stone-house in the parish of Plimmouth, the 20. of October. 1635. Together with the notes of a sermon, preached Octob. 23. 1635. in the church of Plimmouth, at the interring of the sayd birth. By Th. B. B.D. Pr. Pl.
Thomas BedfordDate: 1635
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Four figures: Geneviève, an albino woman of African descent, with white instead of black skin; the conjoint twins Hélène and Judith; and Maria Herig who had a skin disease. Engraving after J. de Sève, 1777.
Reference: 2347i
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Inside the human body. Part 1, Creation.
Date: 2011
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Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, dressed in swimsuits. Photograph, c. 1927.
Date: 1930Reference: 33712i
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Betty Williams : official post card of Ripley's "Believe-it-or-not" Odditorium : a century of progress, 1934.
Date: 1934

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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.

Harry H. Hargrave presents Guadalupe and Josefina Hinojosa : siamese twin girls born grown together in Havana, Cuba, November 15, 1912.

[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].

Two human figures with abnormalities

A short, but concise account of Elisabeth and Mary Chulkhurst, who were born joined together by the hips and shoulders, in the year of our Lord 1100, at Biddenden, in the county of Kent : commonly called the Biddenden Maids.

̄Fæt Sayām ʻIn-Čhan khon khū sū chīwit / [Wilāt Niransuksiri].

Craniopagus.

Report of an autopsy on the bodies of Chang and Eng Bunker, commonly known as the Siamese twins / by Harrison Allen.

An historical account of the Siamese twin brothers, from actual observations.

Twins in history and science / by Luigi Gedda ; translated by Marco Milani-Comparetti ; foreword by Robert M. Stecher.

Freak shows ephemera. Box 3.

Chang and Eng the Siamese twins, in an oriental setting. Lithograph, 1830.

Chang and Eng the Siamese twins, aged eighteen, with badminton rackets. Coloured engraving by JLB, 1829.

A true and certaine relation of a strange-birth : which was borne at Stone-house in the parish of Plimmouth, the 20. of October. 1635. Together with the notes of a sermon, preached Octob. 23. 1635. in the church of Plimmouth, at the interring of the sayd birth. By Th. B. B.D. Pr. Pl.

Four figures: Geneviève, an albino woman of African descent, with white instead of black skin; the conjoint twins Hélène and Judith; and Maria Herig who had a skin disease. Engraving after J. de Sève, 1777.

Inside the human body. Part 1, Creation.

Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, dressed in swimsuits. Photograph, c. 1927.

Betty Williams : official post card of Ripley's "Believe-it-or-not" Odditorium : a century of progress, 1934.