Horrorosa calavera,inundación,Guanajuato,floods,Antonio Vanegas Arroyo,1905

Title: La horrorosa calavera de la inundación de Guanajuato
Title Translation: The horrifying calavera of the flooding of Guanajuato
Creator(s): Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (Firm), publisher
Related Names:
Manilla, Manuel , artist
Date Created/Published: Mexico City : Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, 1905.
Summary: Broadside shows a large skull with several small skulls and skeletons on the recto and verso. The smaller images of skulls and skeletons are shown with corresponding objects conveying some attribute to a type of work or profession. The text both on the recto and verso consists of verse calaveras mentioning several individuals by name and their line of work. The flood in the title of this piece occurred when a dam broke on June 30, 1905, after several days of heavy rain, and killed more than a hundred people.
Notes:
Mexico. Imprenta de A. Vanegas Arroyo. Santa, Teresa núm 1, 1905.
Some of the verso images are identical to those used on broadsides PGA - Vanegas, no. 113 and 125, although the professions, titles, and accompanying verses vary.
Posada's Mexico / Ron Tyler. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1979, p. 178.
Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1977; (DLC/PP-1977:215.586).
Exhibited in 'Posada's Mexico,' Library of Congress, 1979-1980.
Forms part of: Caroline and Erwin Swann collection of caricature and cartoon (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Floods--Mexico--Guanajuato--1900-1910.
Skeletons--1900-1910.
Skulls--1900-1910.
Broadsides--Mexican--1900-1910.
Bookmark /99615910/
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