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José Guadalupe Posada

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Two-page broadside with woodcut of an accused man before a judge and gendarmes, with printed text and verse columns.

Murder of Don Francisco Aguirre

n.d.

Printed songbook broadside with a woodcut of a man playing guitar, columns of song lyrics, and decorative borders.

The Popular Songbook, no. 6

n.d.

Woodcut of horned devils carrying off a woman amid flames, above columns of Spanish text on a 1910 broadsheet.

Very Terrible Example!

1910

Broadside print showing a couple embracing beside a cavern of demons and flames, with columns of printed Spanish text.

Unusual Occurence! An Evil Spirit in the Form of a Beautiful Woman

1910

Printed songbook sheet with woodcut illustrations of figures and columns of song lyrics on pink paper.

El cancionero popular, hoja num. 14 (The Popular Songbook, Sheet No. 14)

n.d.

Woodcut broadside showing uniformed soldiers marching beside a building above printed Spanish verse, titled Corrido de un val

Corrido of A Brave Oaxacan

1911

Printed lottery game sheet with a grid of black-and-white illustrated cards showing animals, objects and figures on tan paper

Lottery Game

1880-1913

Black and white dice game board with numbered circles, two charro riders on horseback, and a rules panel.

The Charlatan Smugglers Dice Game

n.d.

Printed Game of the Goose board with numbered illustrated spaces, geese, a skull, and a rules text in the centre.

Game of the Goose

1909

Pink broadside with song lyrics on the left and a woodcut of a woman and a man under the banner El Pagaré.

The Jealous Wife

n.d.

Green chapbook page: left, a list of children's tales; right, a cover showing a man and boy with staffs beside a lion and toa

Little Rosen, the Lions, and the Toad. A Tale

n.d.

Printed sheet with red cover of Oaxacan Songs showing a church and figures in an oval, beside a text page with ornate borders

Oaxacan Songs

1898

Two-panel 1880 chapbook page: left advertises a printing house with workers at a press, right shows a woman writing with a qu

Patriotic Speeches

1880

Red-ink printed songbook cover, Tango Fatal!, with a woodcut scene of street musicians and a printing shop, Mexico.

Fatal Tango!

1921

Red and black printed cover of a songbook showing two uniformed musicians with a bass drum above a crowd.

The Rumba

1903

Green broadside titled El Caracol showing a giant snail carrying a crowd of figures past a city skyline, with verse below.

The Snail

n.d.

Broadside print with woodcut scene of dancers in period dress under bunting, above two columns of Spanish verse.

Dance

n.d.

Broadside with a woodcut of a couple dancing beside musicians, above Spanish verse titled El cielo por un beso.

The Sky for a Kiss

n.d.

Broadside with woodcut of marching reservists before a crowd and grandstand, plus an eagle and cannons over printed verse col

The Big Dance, The Reservists

n.d.

Pink broadside with a woodcut of a dancing woman in a ruffled skirt beside printed song lyrics and ornamental borders.

The Chinese Woman: Folk Songs

n.d.

Broadside with a woodcut of a large prison building, trams and pedestrians, beside two columns of printed verse on orange pap

End of the XIX Century

September 1890

Printed broadside with a couple embracing in formal dress, dancing pairs behind, and song lyrics in two columns below.

The Heavens for a Kiss

n.d.

Two-part Mexican broadside with engraved portraits of General Zaragoza and General Porfirio Díaz and printed Spanish text.

The Battle of May 5, 1862: The Great Triumph of Mexico over France!

1888/1910

Green printed broadsheet with two song columns, an engraved woman with a book, and a bust portrait of Porfirio Diaz.

March Dedicated to General C. Porfirio Diaz

n.d.

Green broadside showing a comet over a city skyline while a crowd looks up in alarm, with printed text below.

Great Comet and Fiery Blaze

1899

Broadside with woodcut scene of figures in period dress and a man sprawled on the ground, with Spanish verse below.

The Disappointment Suffered by Don Chepito

n.d.

Woodcut print of skeletons riding bicycles, some in top hats and sombreros, with a winged skeleton at center on tan paper.

Skeletons (calaveras) riding bicycles

ca. 1891

Yellowed broadside of Spanish song lyrics with a woodcut illustration of a woman in a shawl and ornate borders.

El pagare de la charrita mexicana (The Promissory Note of La Charrita Mexicana)

n.d.

Broadside with a woodcut of three men in sombreros walking through trees, above columns of Spanish verse, 1910.

Los nuevos versos de Carlos Coronado (The New Verses by Carlos Coronado)

1910