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    Two well-dressed young men, joined at the abdomen by an exposed band of tissue, stand together on a stage beside a chess board; the man on the left holds a badminton racquet.
    An advertisement with an engraving of the well-dressed twins set against a tropical background with a tent.
    A detailed and embellished illustration of the twins as older men surrounded by images of their life and family.
    A woodcut of two naked men joined by a small connected area at the base of the ribcage.
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    Title page from a pamphlet published in Buffalo by Warren, Johnson, & Co., in 1869.

    Two-Headed Girl, 1869

    Title page from: History and Medical Description of the Two-Headed Girl. Told in “Her Own Peculiar Way” by “One of Them”. Buffalo: Warren, Johnson, & Co., 1869.
    Courtesy National Library of Medicine

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