CHANG AND ENG, THE ORIGINAL “SIAMESE” TWINS,
APPEARING IN BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM

A richly illustrated lithographic advertisement for Chang and Eng’s late-career performance in P.T. Barnum’s American Museum. A sensation across the U.S. and Europe during the 1830s, Chang and Eng were born co-joined at the sternum in Siam (present-day Thailand) in 1811. The twins were “discovered” at a young age by.....