McCoy, Millie and Christine | "The Wonderful Two Headed Girl!"

McCoy, Millie and Christine

At Tremont Temple. The Climax of Nature's Wonders. The Most Remarkable Human Being Ever Born to Live. The Wonderful Two Headed Girl! Boston: J. E. Farwell & Co., [1869]

Broadside playbill (431 x 159 mm). Printed in an assortment of types, woodcut vignette of Millie and Christine McCoy by Roy Lance & Purcell; Not examined out of frame, a few small losses and apparent separation along folds, unobtrusive closed marginal tear. Matted, framed, and glazed with Plexiglas. 

"The Wonderful Two Headed Girl!

Millie and Christine were superstar attractions of the nineteenth-century exhibition circuit, along with their fellow conjoined North Carolinians Chang and Eng. Known alternately as the "Two Headed Nightingale," they were accomplished singers and accompanied themselves admirably on guitars. 

REFERENCE:

Exemplars, p. 226; EE, pp. 146-147