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FOSTER, Cassie and Victoria (1865 – 75 and 1871 – 74). [The Fairy Sisters]. New York: James Reilly, Engraver and Decorative Steam Job Printer, ca. 1873. Five-color wood-engraved color two-sheet poster picturing the “smallest persons in the world,” Cassie and Victoria Foster, whose unusual petiteness were the cause of much wonder during their short lives. Framed with plexiglass to 58 x 43”. Not examined out of frame. See Exemplars, p. 114. Cassie and Victoria Foster—two of eleven children and seven years apart in age—weighed a mere twelve pounds at age 10 and six pounds at age 3 respectively. The girls were widely exhibited during their short lives, but both succumbed to death after only a brief flirtation with fame, Victoria at the age of three and a half, and Victoria at the age of 11.