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	FG0011 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]
	FG0029 !Crimen nunca visto ! Tomás Sánchez, barbero que está establecido en Saltillo. . . Undated. Pictorial broadside with prose and verse, half sheet, printed recto and verso, tan paper. Zinc etching. Unsigned. 7.7 x 13.1 cm. [Print 999-019-0029]
	FG0034 !Espantoso crímen nunca visto! __Mujer peor que las fieras!! Una niña con la ropa cosida al cuerpo. Undated. Pictorial broadside with prose and verse, half sheet, printed recto and verso, tan paper. Zinc etching. Unsigned. 8.7 x 13.6 cm. See restrike FG0170. [Print 999-019-0034]
	FG0045 Guadalupe Bejarano en las bartolinas de Belén. Careo entre la mujer verdugo y su hijo. Undated. Pictorial broadside with prose and verse, full sheet, green paper. Type-metal engraving. 14.1 x 19.6 cm. Unsigned. [Print 999-019-0045]
	FG0046 !Horrible y espantosa crimen! Perpetrado a mediados del mes de Agosto de 1900.--Una mujer matada a bastonazos dentro de una cueva en la Villa de Guadalupe.--Una niña abandanada. . . Undated. Pictorial broadside with prose and verse, half sheet, printed recto and verso, tan paper. Zinc etching: Signed in print: Posada. 8.8 x 13.2 cm. [Print 999-019-0046]
	FG0052 Lamentable y espantoso ejemplo ocurrido en el pueblo de la barca, estado de Jalisco el día 4 de Diciembre del año próximo pasado. Juan Ortiz asesino de su mujer y de su anciano padre. Undated. Pictorial broadside with prose and verse, half sheet, printed recto and verso, tan paper. Type-metal engraving. Unsigned. 8.0 x 13.3 cm. [Print 999-019-0052]
	FG0056 Martirio de una niña (Gaceta Callejera...No. 13) October 3, 1893. Pictorial broadside with prose, full sheet, tan paper. Type-metal engraving: Unsigned. 16.7 x 14.3 cm. [Print 999-019-0056]
	FG0066 !!Las mujeres martirizadas!! Crímenes nunca vistos en ciudad de Mexico, por Ramón Palma. Undated. Pictorial broadside with prose, half sheet, printed recto and verso, tan paper. Type-metal engraving. 11.5 x 10.8 cm. [Print 999-019-0066]
	FG0067 Las 97 mujeres envenenadas en la carcel de Belén de México. 1907. Pictorial broadside with verse and prose, half sheet, printed recto and verso, tan paper. Zinc etching. Signed in print: Posada. 11.0 x 11.2 cm. [Print 999-019-0067]
	FG0094 La terrible noche del 17 de agosto de 1890. Ultimos recuerdos del Sargento 2o. Zeferino Martínez. Undated. Pictorial broadside verse, full sheet, printed recto and verso, tan paper. Type-metal engraving. Unsigned. 13.9 x 19.2 cm. Tyler 111: "Many of the prints done by Posada for Vanegas Arroyo were clearly based on newspaper accounts of incidents. Either Posada would create a print for a story or Vanegas Arroyo would use a plate that he already had on hand to illustrate it._ On verso (not shown): type-metal engraving of seven soldiers bearing a coffin on a caisson. Unsigned. 10.5 x 16.6 cm. [Print 999-019-0094]
	FG0164 "Ejemplo. El asesinato de Pachuca. 1904." Type-metal engraving. Unsigned. 5.5 x 5.0 cm. [Print 999-019-0164]
	FG0166 "Los asesinos. Corrido 'El robo de la Profesa." Type-metal engraving. Unsigned. 13.2 x 18.2 cm. [Print 999-019-0166]
	FG0175 "Cadaveres de madre y hija." Type-metal engraving. Unsigned. 7.8 x 12.6 cm. [Print 999-019-0175]
	FG0189 "Corrido: 'El tecolote.'" Zinc etching. Unsigned. 8.0 x 13.4 cm. [Print 999-019-0189]
	FG0191 "Corrido: 'La celosa.'" Zinc etching. Unsigned. 8.4 x 6.8 cm. [Print 999-019-0191]
	FG0195 "Corrido: 'La suicida Maria Luisa.'" Zinc etching. Unsigned. 13.7 x 8.3 cm. [Print 999-019-0195]
	FG0199 "Corrido: 'María la chiquita.'" Zinc etching. Unsigned. 7.3 x 11.2 cm. [Print 999-019-0199]
	FG0206 "El crimen de la tragedia de Belen Galindo." Zinc engraving. Signed. 11.2 x 11.5 cm. [Print 999-019-0206]
	FG0207 "Crimen del Tigre de Santa Julia, 1903. Corrido 'El tigre de Santa Julia.'" Zinc etching. Signed. 8.4 x 14.2 cm. [Print 999-019-0207]
	FG0214 "Decimas los robachicos en acción." Zinc etching. Unsigned. 9.4 x 14.4 cm. [Print 999-019-0214]
	FG0223 "Descubriendo un crimen." Type-metal engraving. Unsigned. 8.6 x 6.6 cm. [Print 999-019-0223]
	FG0232 "Ejemplo: 'El rico haciendado.'" Zinc etching. Signed. 7.9 x 13.4 cm. [Print 999-019-0232]
	FG0233 "Ejemplo: 'En las profundidades de una mina.'" Zinc etching. Signed. 8.9 x 13.5 cm. Printed from same plate as broadside FG0046. [Print 999-019-0233]
	FG0234 "Ejemplo: 'Enfame hija que da muerte a sus queridos padres.'" Type-metal engraving. Unsigned. 9.0 x 13.2 cm. [Print 999-019-0234]
	FG0235 "Ejemplo: 'Hallago de un cadaver.'" Zinc etching. Signed. 8.8 x 13.2 cm. [Print 999-019-0235]
	FG0237 "Ejemplo: 'La mujer endrablada_." Zinc etching. Signed. 7.4 x 12.0 cm. [Print 999-019-0237]
	FG0238 "Ejemplo: 'La niña degollada.'" Zinc etching. Unsigned. 7.7 x 13.1 cm. Printed from same plate as broadside FG0029. [Print 999-019-0238]
	FG0239 "Ejemplo: Los manos vicios." Zinc etching. Signed. 7.6 x 11.9 cm. [Print 999-019-0239]
	FG0240 "Ejemplo: Un hijo que mata a su padre." Zinc etching. Signed. 6.9 x 11.8 cm. [Print 999-019-0240]
	FG0241 "En el tren, Balazos en la calle de San Hipolito." Type-metal engraving. Unsigned. 11.4 x 10.9 cm. Printed from same plate as FG0011 except that this image has been altered to remove the pistol from the man's hand and the number "81" from the trolley. [Print 999-019-0241]
	FG0245 "Los espantos." Zinc etching. Unsigned. 7.8 x 12.0 cm. [Print 999-019-0245]
	FG0246 "Espantoso parricidio. Sensacional acontecimiento espantoso parricidio y verdadero ejemplo en el Saltillo, el día primero del mes pasado." Type-metal engraving. Unsigned. 8.1 x 12.7 cm. [Print 999-019-0246]
	FG0247 "Estranguladora." Zinc etching. Unsigned. 6.1 x 4.9 cm. [Print 999-019-0247]
	FG0250 "Un francés que se mata delante de su familia." Type-metal engraving. Unsigned. 11.7 x 17.1 cm. [Print 999-019-0250]
	FG0263 "Un hijo infame que enveneria a sus padres." Zinc etching. Unsigned. 7.2 x 10.9 cm. [Print 999-019-0263]
	FG0285 "Llega la policia. Fragmento del grabado _Balazos en la calle de San Hipólito._ Gaceta Callejera. Agosto 1892." Type-metal engraving. Unsigned. 8.8 x 5.4 cm. Printed from same plate as FG0011. [Print 999-019-0285]
	FG0293 "Una mujer enterada en Pachuca 1904." Zinc etching. Unsigned. 7.8 x 11.8 cm. [Print 999-019-0293]
	FG0294 "Mujer que mata a sus pequeños hijos." Zinc etching. Unsigned. 8.2 x 13.6 cm. [Print 999-019-0294]
	FG0296 "Una mujer que se quita la vida por falta de comida." Type metal engraving. Unsigned. 6.2 x 11.0 cm. [Print 999-019-0296]
	FG0299 "Norberta Reyes que mata a su madre." Type-metal engraving. Unsigned. 8.8 x 13.7 cm. [Print 999-019-0299]
	FG0301 "Las 97 mujeres envenenadas en la carcel de Belén." Zinc etching. Signed. 11.0 x 11.4 cm. Printed from same plate as broadside FG0067. [Print 999-019-0301]
	FG0315 "Los plagiarios."Zinc etching. Unsigned. 6.8 x 6.7 cm. [Print 999-019-0315]
	FG0318 "Policia que mata a su familia." Zinc etching. Signed. 9.0 x 14.2 cm. [Print 999-019-0318]
	FG0335 "Robo sacrilego y asesinato del señor cura en la Iglesia Parroquial del pueblo de Zahuaya, cometido por un impio llamada Celso Flores." Type-metal engraving. Unsigned. 8.8 x 13.6 cm. [Print 999-019-0335]
	FG0337 "La sacristan que se ahorca en la catedral." Zinc etching. Unsigned. 9.8 x 13.2 cm. [Print 999-019-0337]
	MXB118 "¡Horrible asesinato!" February, 1910. Pictorial broadside with prose (recto) and verse (verso), half sheet, tan paper. Zinc etching. Signed. 9.5 x 16.5 cm. [Print 000-425-0118]
	MXB119 "Horrible crimen." Undated.Pictorial broadside with prose (recto) and verse (verso), half sheet, tan paper. Zinc etching. Signed. 7.5 x 11.5 cm.[Print 000-425-0119]

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