Vintage twins

1946, Minnesota - these Wolner family twins, Robert and Richard, are just so darn cute!

Vintage

Sussex historian Alf Le Flohic has launched a campaign to raise £1,500 to keep the twins' memory alive by placing a blue plaque on their birthplace at 18 Riley Road in Brighton.

Heartbreaking Portraits Capture Two Identical Twin Farmers At The End Of Their Lives

This site exists to discredit the idea of the Victorian standing post mortem photo. Post mortem photos do exist, but none of them are stand alone.

Janos and Istvan Papp Lukacs - twin Hungarian farmers, 1988, w/kittens

wonderful things

With a hand-coloured woodcut showing the front and back of Siamese twins joined at the abdomen, and below three blocks of letterpress text, two of English and Latin verse and the third of English prose, describing the phenomenon. Woodcut, letterpress, hand-coloured by John Day, England, 1552. Inscription Content: With three blocks of letterpress, naming the father of the children as John Kenner of 'Myddleton Stonye', and manuscript inscriptions within the image in Dutch by a contemporary…

Jenny Lee & Elvira Snow Freaks has earned its place in history as one of the all-time great cult films, though it wasn’t always beloved. The film was reviled by both critics and audiences upon release in 1932. It was a career-killer for Tod Browning, who had previously been a Hollywood golden child with a string of Lon Chaney hits under his belt and who had just come off the enormous success of Dracula. The film shocked audiences with its use of actual sideshow “freaks” as actors: Among the…