Nineteenth-Century Disability:  Cultures & Contexts

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  • Collection: 1902 to 1914

1900 Glass Eye.jpg
Published in 1904, H. G. Wells’s novel The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth is a tale that depicts ocular prosthesis at its most effective: the minor character Mr. Skinner is only revealed as an artificial eye user after his death, where the…

Millie_&_Christine_McCoy_c1890s.jpg
Millie (left) and Christine (right) McKoy were born into slavery in Columbus County, North Carolina, in 1851. These conjoined twin sisters were sometimes called Millie-Christine McKoy. Each sister had two arms and two legs, but they were connected at…
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