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Balazos en la calle de San Hipólito en un tren de las corridas de Atzcapotzalco.--Una señora asesinada.--Dos gendarmes gravemente herridos.--Aprehensión del asesino por un valiente y arrojado ciudadano, in Gaceta Callejera, August 1892. Type-metal engraving. Unsigned. 11.5 x 17.6 cm. A portion of this image is reproduced in restrike FG0285. [Print 999-019-0011]

 

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La brava calavera del cinematografo. 1906. Pictorial broadside verse, full sheet, printed recto and verso, red paper. Zinc etchings. Signed in print: Posada. 15.0 x 23.2 cm. Tailpiece on verso illustrating a field of skulls and bones. Signed in print: Posada. 3.5 x 24.5 cm. The broadside is adorned with eighteen type-metal engraved vignettes, mostly skulls and calaveras. [Print 999-019-0012]

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Las bravisimas calaveras guatemaltecas de Mora y de Morales. 1907. Pictorial broadside verse, full sheet, printed recto and verso, lavender paper. Zinc etching. The two large calaveras represent Bernardo Mora and Florencio Morales, assassins of the ex-President of Guatemala. The broadside is adorned with 17 type-metal engraved vignettes of skulls and calaveras. Signed in print: Posada. 15.6 X 27.2 cm. Tailpiece on verso depicts a field of skulls and bones. [Print 999-019-0013]

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La Calavera de cupido. También cupido el travieso después de muerto es tronera, y llora de amor el hueso como todo calavera. Undated. Pictorial broadside verse, full sheet, red paper. Unsigned. Twelve type-metal engravings, each approximately 7.0 x 6.0 cm. [Print 999-019-0014]

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Calavera de los patinadores. 1910. Pictorial broadside verse, full sheet, yellow paper. Type-metal engraving. Signed in print: Posada. 12.1 x 20.5 cm. Six small type-metal engravings used as vignettes. [Print 999-019-0015]

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Calavera tapatia. Undated. Pictorial broadside verse, full sheet, printed recto and verso, tan paper. Type-metal engraving. 22.6 x 14.0 cm. Unsigned. (Attributed to Manuel Manilla). Adorned with eleven type-metal vignettes. [Print 999-019-0016]

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Calaveras de Coyotes y Meseras. 1906. Pictorial broadside verse, full sheet, printed recto and verso, lavender paper. Zinc etching. Signed in print: Posada. 15 x 23.2 cm. The broadside is adorned with four type-metal vignettes. [Print 999-019-0017]

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Las calaveritas picosas, verdes y color de rosas. Undated. Pictorial verse, half sheet, purple paper. Type-metal engraving. Signed in print: JM. 7.7 x 6.3 cm. [Print 999-019-0018]

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El cancionero popular. Hoja num. 3: Tiburcia o la estación de Morelos. Undated. Pictorial broadside verse, half sheet, printed recto and verso, yellow paper. Zinc etching. Unsigned. 8.0 x 16.0 cm. [Print 999-019-0019]

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El cancionero popular. Hoja num. 18: Cancion de pulquero [á] El banderillero. 1910. Pictorial broadside verse, half sheet, printed recto and verso, tan paper. Zinc etchings. Unsigned. 8.0 x 16.0 cm. [Print 999-019-0020]