Flying Twins

Today's picture was taken around 1910, and it shows twins getting ready for an airplane flight. Now, I have to really believe they wee just posing on the airplane . . . they were not really going to fly the thing were they?

Twin Girls

This picture is from 1914 and shows twin girls getting ready to go in the car. My guess is that they are on their way to church. Have you noticed how the parents of twins can never resist dressing them the same? I am sure I would be the same way, though. The car looks like it is a Buick Roadster.

Twin Brothers

Today's picture shows twin brothers who sell newspapers. The picture is from 1909, and was taken in Hartford, Connecticut.

Pygopagus Twins

Today's picture is from about 1920, and it shows twin boys on a small pedal car. The boys are Pygopagus Twins, or conjoined, facing opposite directions. This is a very rare condition. Today, they always try and separate conjoined twins but back in the day, they just figured out how to live with it.  

Twins

Welcome to Twins Week here at OPOD. We kick things off with this picture showing a set of twins. No, not the babies . . . the mothers are twins. The twin mothers had their babies on the same day. Interestingly, this was the second time they gave birth at the same time. The picture is from 1937.

Small People from the Philippines

We are wrapping up Miniature Person Week today with this picture from 1914. The picture shows a small couple from the Philippines. I was not able to find any other information on the picture.

Small Couple

We kick off Giant Week today with this picture of a couple standing next to a 12 foot giant. Just kidding . . . had to beat the Evil Nate Mass to the joke. No, this is a normal sized man standing next to a small couple. The picture was taken in 1924, but I could not find the names of the people. I do notice that there appears to be a half smoked cigar on the steps in front of them . . . wonder which one of them threw out their cigar before they snapped the picture.

Barnum's Circus

It appears that a well proportioned small person could always find reasonably good work with P. T. Barnum. The picture above is from about 1910, and it shows a small person in the Circus Arena. By this time Barnum himself was gone, but his tradition of employing small people lived on.