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Posada (José Guadalupe) Collection of works published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo
BANC PIC 2010.025
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Language of Material:
Spanish
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Collection of works published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, chiefly illustrated by José Guadalupe Posada.
creator:
Posada, José Guadalupe
creator:
Vanegas Arroyo, Antonio
Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 2010.025
Physical Description:
390 items
(approximately 390 prints in 2 pamphlet boxes, 2 clamshell boxes, 2 oversize boxes, and 4 oversize folders)
: etchings, engravings, lithographs, or woodcuts with letterpress
; approximately 40 x 60 cm or smaller.
Date (inclusive): approximately 1890s-1925?
Abstract: Mexican chapbooks, broadsides, single-fold pamphlets, handbills and other printed ephemera, chiefly issued by Mexico City's
leading penny press publisher, Antonio Vanegas Arroyo. Most are illustrated, by José Guadalupe Posada.
Language of Material: Spanish; Castillian
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Collection is open for research.
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of some materials may be restricted by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions,
privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond
that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be
commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000. See: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html.
Collection of works published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, chiefly illustrated by José Guadalupe Posada, BANC PIC 2010.025,
The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Collection of works published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, chiefly illustrated by José Guadalupe Posada were purchased by
The Bancroft Library from Ricker Gallery, Spring 2010.
Collection processed in 2015.
José Guadalupe Posada was born in Aguascalientes on February 2, 1852. He was a Mexican printmaker famous for his politically
satirical cartoons and sketches. He used skulls, calaveras, and skeletons to make political and cultural critiques.
Mexican chapbooks, broadsides, single-fold pamphlets, handbills and other printed ephemera, chiefly issued by Mexico City's
leading penny press publisher, Antonio Vanegas Arroyo. Most are illustrated, many by José Guadalupe Posada. Included are
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 well represented.
Boxes 1-2: cuadernillos (chapbooks). Boxes 3-4: hojas chicas (small sheets). Box 5 (and oversize C folders): broadsides and
single-fold sheets grouped as calaveras, cancioneros populares, gacetas politicas y callejaera [i.e. callejera?], and hojas
chicas dobles. Box 6 (and oversize C folders): 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). Collection contents were categorized by the seller (a dealer in Latin Americana), as 55
Calaveras, 36 Hojas Chicas Dobles, 24 Cancionero Popular, 155 Hojas Chicas, 19 Gacetas Religiosas, 27 Gaceta Politica y Callejaera,
4 Loteria, 6 Varia, and 56 Cuadernillo.
[José Guadalupe Posada chapbook collection], The Bancroft Library (NE546.P6 A4 1880.)
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Popular literature -- Mexico
Art, Mexican
Ephemera -- Mexico
Handbills--Mexico
Broadsides--Mexico
Chapbooks -- Mexico
Prints
Relief prints
Corridos -- Mexico
Mexican wit and humor, Pictorial
Death in art -- Mexico
Mexico--Social life and customs
Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920.
Posada, José Guadalupe
Vanegas Arroyo, Antonio