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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].

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].

[Leaflet (8 June 1880) about the conjoined twin girls, Rosalie and Josepha Blazek.  ].

[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].

[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].

Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.

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

[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. ].

[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].

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Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.

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].