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Cassie and Victoria Foster, The Fairy Sisters : Smallest Persons in the World

Cassie and Victoria Foster, The Fairy Sisters : Smallest Persons in the World Poster
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Poster based on drawing by A. Briggs

Text and image: 50 cm x 41 cm; on sheet: 61 cm x 51 cm

[Boston]: Clear & Co., [1873]
This lithograph poster was published by Clear & Co. and features a drawing by A. Briggs, 1872.  Copyright 1873 by J. F. Pickering.
Caption reads: Cassie. Now 10 years old, weighs only 12 pounds. Victoria. Now 3 years old, weighs only 6 pounds.


This elaborate poster promotes the "smallest persons in the world," Cassie and Victoria Foster. The "fairy sisters" were born in Nova Scotia and, at 10 and 3, weighed only 12 and 6 pounds, respectively. They were exhibited as human curiosities by their agent, Fred A. Pickering of Boston, between 1872 and 1873 before both died at a young age.