Eng and Chang Online

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The two men who were arguably the most famous residents of North Carolina in the nineteenth century are featured in a new online collection: Chang and Eng Bunker: The Siamese Twins. This website presents original materials from the North Carolina Collection and the Southern Historical Collection and documents the lives and times of conjoined twins Eng and Chang Bunker.

Highlights from the collection include photographs of the twins and their families, letters written by Chang and Eng, and a fascinating account book documenting their travels through the United States and Europe in the 1830s.

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