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Enthusiastic reception of Barnum's great and renowned Boston Prize Ladies who have been specially engaged to complete a tour of Great Britain at an enormous outlay : Miss Minnie & Rhoda Holland. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Tall, narrow poster printed in red and dark blue on white paper advertising the British tour of P.T. Barnum's two 'fat lady' sisters "weighing together nearly half a ton". There are two line illustrations of the sisters seated. A similar handbill exists (in the British Library) printed in black on white paper, dated December 1885.
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