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Captain Abel Coffin

Title: Captain Abel Coffin
Description: Oil portrait of Captain Abel Coffin- a Nantucket seaman and trader- who brought Eng and Chang Bunker from Siam to the US in 1829. He arranged the Siamese twins' first tours until they quit him when they reached the age of 21.
Subject: Surry County (N.C.); White Plains (N.C.); Chang and Eng Bunker; Siamese Twins
Date: 1829
Contributor: Mount Airy Museum of Regional History
Format: painting
Type: image
Identifier: Whp_BUN_i17401.030A_mam
Coverage: White Plains (N.C.)
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/
Is Part Of: Chang and Eng Bunker; Siamese Twins; Surry County (N.C.); White Plains (N.C.)