African American Conjoined Twins, Cabinet Card Photograph Signed

by both by Millie and Christine McKoy

$1,250 · Offered by Back Creek Books

New York: Eisenmann Photographic Studio, c,1880s . Black and white photograph by Charles Eisenmann. Mounted on card, approximately 4 1/8 x 6 3/8 . The McKoy twins were born into slavery in Whiteville, North Carolina in 1851. The girls were conjoined at the lower spine and shared a pelvis. They each had a full set of limbs and stood at an approximately 90 degree angle from

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