3-053-226 - The London Archives (City of London)/Heritage Images

The African Twins, 1855. 'Remarkable Human Phenomena! (Christina and Milly). These extraordinary Children, only Five Years old, and whom Nature has linked by an Indissoluble Band, about 16 inches in circumference, having excited the most intense interest, and created the greatest sensation wherever they have been witnessed, will be on view, for a brief period only...'. Advertisement for a human zoo attraction featuring conjoined twins Millie and Christine McKoy who were born into enslavement in the United States but were supposedly freed by their enslaver Mr Thompson, who then toured them round the country before taking them to Europe to exhibit them at 'museums' such as the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, London.