(MUSIC) Millie Christine the Carolina Twins

Sale 2105 - Lot 304

Price Realized: $ 1,200

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 750 - $ 1,000

(MUSIC.) Millie-Christine, the "Carolina Twins." Carte-de-visite photograph. Hughes & Company Photographers, St. Louis" on verso; "Twins," in pencil beneath the image; a few pencil scribbles on verso.

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A very early photograph, probably taken at age 14 or 15, of the noted conjoined twins who were born into slavery in North Carolina on July 11, 1851. The girls were talented and could sing and play. Millie and Christine were taken from their family and sold several times before they were finally acquired by their last owner J. P. Smith. Just prior to the Civil War, while performing in New Orleans, the twins were kidnapped. It took years for Smith to reclaim them, and by then they were legally free. They chose however to remain with Smith's widow rather than be returned to their family.