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Kentucky Giant Boy and Barnum’s Fat Lady. Cincinnati: Courier Print, 1883. Wraps. 5 ¾ x 4”. 32pp. Contents include a biography and songs performed by the couple. Reinforced spine, foxing, and sealed tear to back cover. A biographical sketch of John H. Powers, “The Wonderful Kentucky Giant Boy,” and his sister, Mary Jane Powers, “The Kentucky Giantess,” or P. T. Barnum’s Fat Lady, weighing in at 782 lbs., “the heaviest lady in America.”