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José Guadalupe Posada

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Woodcut of a bearded man in a sombrero beside a locomotive and street scene, with the title De Torreón á Lerdo.

From Torreón to Lerdo

c. 1905

Broadside woodcut of a puppeteer and guitarist performing beside a crowd carrying a Virgin of Solitude procession, with print

Most Holy Virgin of Solitude

published 1903

Broadside showing townspeople looking up at a comet over a town skyline, with Spanish text columns below.

The Comet

1899, published 1910

Yellow broadside with a woodcut of a dandy smoking a cigar beside two figures, above columns of printed Spanish verse.

Hand-me-downs of the Dandies

1890-99

Purple Mexican broadside showing charro men and women watching dancers, with song lyrics and a central spearhead ornament.

The Tap Dance

published c. 1918

Broadside print of a man with a guitar serenading a woman at a window, with a garden, crescent moon and Spanish verses below.

Pretty Girls

c. 1911

Yellow broadside with a woodcut comet over a starry sky and a crowd of figures before a church skyline, with Spanish text.

The Great Halley's Comet

1899, published 1910

Woodcut broadside showing a collapsing building and fleeing figures, with columns of text and a hymn to the Virgin Mary below

El fin del mundo se aproxima (The End of the World is Approaching)

n.d.

Woodcut broadside showing a petatero and a seated tortillera at a street corner altar, with Spanish verse below.

In Honor of the Lord of Wonders

n.d.

Broadside with woodcut of a woman stabbing a man while devils hover, above Spanish text under the title Horrible Murder.

Horrible Murder!

c. 1910

Woodcut broadside showing a devil attacking a man in a sombrero, a kneeling woman, and the Virgin of Guadalupe above, with pr

Horrible suceso (Horrible Incident)

n.d.

Blue broadside with a central skeleton in sombrero, printed verses on both sides, and ornamental skull-decorated borders.

Calavera cismatica (Schismatic Calavera)

n.d.

Red broadside with a pointing skeleton, a skull-filled tram, a heap of skulls at a cemetery wall, and columns of verse.

Calavera of the Masses

1915

Red broadside with a skeletal rider on horseback at center, flanked by verse columns and small skull vignettes.

Little Calavera of General Gómez

n.d.

Printed broadside of skeletal figures in uniforms and hats charging with rifles and flags, above columns of satirical verse.

The Rebel Calavera of the Federal Army, Merchants, and Artisans

September 1911

Posada broadside of skeletons feasting among tombs above columns of verse, with skulls in the corners.

The Mausoleum of All the Calaveras That Are Found in a Heap

1905

Broadside with woodcut of a penitentiary building, tram and street scene, skeletons, skulls and printed verses.

Here is the Calaveron of the Penitentiary. Don't break, old bones, for your day has just arrived

n.d.

Green broadside with a large skeleton, hourglass and bells, and columns of satirical verse titled La Calavera Clerical.

The Priestly Calavera

n.d.

Printed broadside with woodcut of kneeling women praying, verse text in columns, and a decorative border.

Heartfelt Pleas Invoked by the Youth of 40 Years to the Miraculous St. Anthony of Padua Asking for his Consolation

1911

Printed songbook page with song lyrics and a small woodcut of a man looking at a kneeling figure beside a wall.

El cancionero popular, num. 16 (The Popular Songbook, No. 16)

n.d.

Posada broadside of skeletal figures in a graveyard around an RIP coffin, with Spanish verse printed below.

Aquí están las calaveras de Don Folias y el Negrito (Here Are the Calaveras of Don Folias and El Negrito)

n.d.

Tan broadside of skeletal figures carrying a coffin in procession above columns of printed verse and decorative borders.

Calavera de la hora oficial (Calavera of the Official Time)

n.d.

Green-tinted broadside with a woodcut crowd scene, printed verse columns, and a portrait of a man commemorating Mexico's 1910

The Centennial of Mexico's Independence in the Year 1910

n.d.

Broadside with a crowd of caricatured faces above two columns of printed verse, titled La Feria de San Juan de los Lagos.

The San Juan de los Lagos Fair

n.d.

Broadside of a flood in Valle Gómez with a woman, children and men carrying bundles, plus columns of printed text.

Formidable inundación en la colonia Valle Gomez (The Formidable Flood in the Valle Gomez Neighborhood)

n.d.

Yellowed popular songbook broadside with a woodcut of a guitar-playing man beside printed song lyrics and borders.

El cancionero popular, hoja num. 1 (The Popular Songbook, Sheet No. 1)

n.d.

Woodcut broadside showing a bullfighter with capes facing a bull, above columns of printed verses about Lino Zamora.

True Verses about Lino Zamora

1911

Green broadside with a central skeleton in a sombrero surrounded by skeletal crowds and skulls, with Spanish verses below.

Revolutionary Calavera

c. 1910

Green broadside with a woodcut of a seated man at a table and columns of Spanish verse about poverty.

La arranquera (Poverty)

n.d.

Yellowed broadside 'El cancionero popular' No. 17 with printed verse columns and a woodcut figure of a man in a hat.

El cancionero popular, num. 17 (The Popular Songbook, No. 17)

n.d.

Broadside poster with woodcut of a train wreck in mountains, Spanish text and verse about the 1910 Palo Blanco derailment.

The Derailment in Palo Blanco

n.d.

Mexican broadsheet with woodcut scenes of dandies and ragged men beside columns of printed verse.

Hand-me-downs of Dandies

1912