(MUSIC) The Greatest Wonder of the World Millie Christine th

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(MUSIC.) The Greatest Wonder of the World, Millie Christine, the Two-Headed Lady, the Most Wonderfully Made of All God's Creatures (wrapper title). [32] pages, erratically paginated. 8vo, original illustrated front wrapper, worn, lacking rear wrapper; contents worn, some leaves detached. Np: Great Inter-Ocean, [1883]

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A biography of the conjoined twins Millie and Christine McCoy, born into slavery and exhibited across the world in concerts as the Two-Headed Nightingale. The text is interspersed with numerous advertisements from their sponsor, Merchant's Gargling Oil Liniment, which provides the date; on the first page, they boast that it was "first introduced in 1833--fifty years ago." One copy in OCLC.