Eng and Chang Bunker Vertical File Folders
Collection Information
- Contact Information:
- Learning Resources Center
- Wilkes Community College
- PO Box 120
- Wilkesboro, North Carolina28697
- Phone: (336) 838-6114
- Fax: (336) 838-6515
- Email: fay.byrd@wilkescc.edu">fay.byrd@wilkescc.edu
- URL: http://www.wilkes.nc.cc.us
- Staff:
- Dr. Fay Byrd, Director
- Janet Atwood, Librarian
- Christy Earp, Librarian
- Vickie Cothren-Millsaps, Library Technician
- Rebecca Queen, Secretary
- Processed by:
- Janet Atwood, Librarian
- Encoded by:
- Christy Earp, Librarian
- Date Encoding Completed:
- March, 2003
- Images Digitized by:
- Vickie Cothren-Millsaps, Library Technician
- Under the Direction of:
- Dr. Fay Byrd, Library Director
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Descriptive Summary
- Creator
- James Larkin Pearson and J. Jay Anderson
- Extent
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- 4 folders
Administrative Information
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], Eng and Chang Bunker , Learning Resources Center, Wilkes Community College.
- Copyright Notice
- Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors, their descendants, or Wilkes Community College in accordance with U.S. copyright law. Images may not be reproduced without permission from the copyright holder.
Biographical and Historical Note
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- Bunker, Chang, 1811-1874.
- Bunker, Eng, 1811-1874.
- Conjoined twins--United States--Biography.
- Conjoined twins--North Carolina--Biography.
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Detailed Description of the Collection
Following is a container list of the Eng and Chang Bunker file. These items may be examined in the library.
Eng and Chang Bunker, 1868-1986
"Chang-Eng Pact Acquired," Winston-Salem Journal, 06 August 1977.
"Siamese Twins Home Getting a Face Lift," Journal Patriot, 12 June 1986.
"The Two," Book Digest.
"The Curious Life of 'The Two'," News & Observer, 25 June 1978.
Walser, Richard, "The Siamese Twins," The North Carolina Miscellany, 1962.
"Chang and Eng, the World Renowned Siamese Twins," Winston-Salem Journal, 06 August 1977.
"A Scurvy Piece of Business," The Yadkin Valley News, 14 July 1892.
"Togetherness Brought Fame, Misery," Winston-Salem Journal, 12 March 1978.
"Siamese Twins," Advertisement, undated. J.M. Elliott, New York.
"The Siamese Twins in North Carolina," Reader's Digest, November, 1952.
"Siamese Twins Found Home in Surry County," Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel, 20 January 1974.
Chang and Eng's Petition to Change their Surname (Photocopy), 1844.
"Son of One of Original Siamese Twins in Father's House in Surry," Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel, 09 April 1950.
Request to Purchase the Bodies of Eng and Chang Upon their Deaths (Photocopy), 29 Jan 1874.
Adams Express Company Bill of Lading for Shipping the Twins' Bodies (Photocopy), 21 Mar 1874.
"The Siamese Twins," British Medical Journal, 20 January 1868.
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