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[Beneficencia Pública lottery cards].
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Title:
[Beneficencia Pública lottery cards]Creator/Contributor:
Bassetti, U., creator, publisher.Creator/Contributor:
F. Parres & Co. Sucs, printer.Abstract:
Advertising cards promoting the Beneficencia Pública lottery of 1890 in Mexico City. The front of each sheet depicts a person
representing a different ethnic, cultural or occupational type of Mexican, some associated with particular regions of the
country: aguador (Queretaro); el jarabe Mexicano; mazatecos de Ayautla (Oaxaca); cabaceros (Mexico); lavandera; indio Kikapo
(Norte de Mexico); indios de Maltrata (Veracruz); Apaches mediocivilizados (Chihuahua); pulqueros; vaquero. The backs of the
cards include dates of lottery drawings and lists of prizes.
Date:
1890 (issued)Subject:
n-mx---Mexico. -- Secretaría de Gobernación. -- Beneficencia Pública.
Mexicans -- Pictorial works
Lotteries -- Mexico
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Text printed on back of each card: "1890. Lottery of the Beneficencia Publica... For further particulars, address: U. Bassetti,
City of Mexico, manager. F. Párres y Co. Sucs. Printers, Mexico."
Beneficencia Pública lottery cards, BANC PIC 2021.049, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Purchase ; from Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare ; 2021.
Type:
graphicLithographs.
Advertising cards.
Physical Description:
print
12 prints in 1 folder : color lithographs ; sheets 12 x 8 cm
Language:
mul