Collection of works illustrated by José Guadalupe Posada [graphic]. [ca. 1895-ca. 1925?]

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Collection of works illustrated by José Guadalupe Posada [graphic]. [ca. 1895-ca. 1925?]

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Collection consists chiefly of broadsides, chapbooks, and single-fold pamphlets. Includes songbooks, single-sheet corridos (popular ballads); booklets on writing love letters, cooking, etc.; gameboards; and devotional texts and images. Posada's signature "calaveras" (humorous skeletal figures) are represented as are popular songs printed by Mexico City's leading penny press, publisher Antonio Vanegas Arroyo. Boxes 1-2: cuadernillos (chapbooks). Boxes 3-4: hojas chicas (small sheets). Box 5: broadsides and single-fold sheets grouped as calaveras, cancioneros populares, gacetas politicas y callejaera [i.e. callejera?], and hojas chicas dobles. Box 6: broadsides and single-fold sheets grouped as loterias, Menudencias (pages from three issues of newspaper El Boletín de Menudencias), gacetas religiosas, and varia (various genres, including sheet music and chapbooks on unfolded sheets).

6 boxes (386 items of printed ephemera: illustrated broadsides, chapbooks, etc.) ; 60 x 40 cm or smaller.

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Vanegas Arroyo, Antonio, 1852-1917

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A member of the printers' group at Sta. Teresa 1, Mexico D.F., with Jose Guadaluupe Posada. From the description of El Gran Descarrilamiento : broadsheet and printer's block, 1904. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872611 Biography Antonio Vanegas Arroyo was born in Puebla, Mexico around 1850; in 1867 he moved to Mexico City; he later established a printing house, and before the turn of the century issued a series of smal...

Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (Firm)

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Posada, José Guadalupe, 1852-1913

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Born in poverty in 1852, Jose Guadalupe Posada (b. February 31, 1853-d. January 20, 1913) became the "Printmaker to the Mexican People," an influence on future Mexican artists such as Orozco and Rivera, and is often compared to such icons as Goya and Daumier. Posada is labelled an artist, a folk illustrator and a political cartoonist; no matter how he is categorized, it is clear that, through his prolific career, "an inarticulate public found expression." Posada left his ...