Hughes & Co., Photographers, Troxel's Old Stand, S.W. Cor. 4th and Locust, St. Louis Full-length double portrait, Millie and Christine McCoy, conjoined twins, Carte de visite

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Title: Hughes & Co., Photographers, Troxel's Old Stand, S.W. Cor. 4th and Locust, St. Louis Full-length double portrait, Millie and Christine McCoy, conjoined twins, Carte de visite
Creator: From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created: circa 1860
Description: Verso, in pencil: "Millie + Christine, The Carolina Siamese Twins, St. Louis, MO, c1863. [See Wm. Darragh "Cartes de Visite" pge: 52, plate 114]; also portrayed in cabinet photograph cf. 141; cartes de visite D-150, D-151.
Provenance: Purchase from Swann Galleries, Inc., 1995 on various funds.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

JWJ MSS 54

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Box 11, folder 462

Access: Public
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Citation: Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection. James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.