Front and back covers of a phamplet relating to a story 'The thieves and the National Valley' with illustration of indigenous men and women being herded by men in military uniforms towards a train, on the verso 'Dance of the Snake' and a corrido

Front and back covers of a phamplet relating to a story 'The thieves and the National Valley' with illustration of indigenous men and women being herded by men in military uniforms towards a train, on the verso 'Dance of the Snake' and a corrido

José Guadalupe Posada

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Image included in the broadsheet "Danza de la culebra" (Imprenta de A. Vanegas Arroyo, ca. 1899). Same image as 60.678.40.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Front and back covers of a phamplet relating to a story 'The thieves and the National Valley' with illustration of indigenous men and women being herded by men in military uniforms towards a train, on the verso 'Dance of the Snake' and a corridoFront and back covers of a phamplet relating to a story 'The thieves and the National Valley' with illustration of indigenous men and women being herded by men in military uniforms towards a train, on the verso 'Dance of the Snake' and a corridoFront and back covers of a phamplet relating to a story 'The thieves and the National Valley' with illustration of indigenous men and women being herded by men in military uniforms towards a train, on the verso 'Dance of the Snake' and a corridoFront and back covers of a phamplet relating to a story 'The thieves and the National Valley' with illustration of indigenous men and women being herded by men in military uniforms towards a train, on the verso 'Dance of the Snake' and a corridoFront and back covers of a phamplet relating to a story 'The thieves and the National Valley' with illustration of indigenous men and women being herded by men in military uniforms towards a train, on the verso 'Dance of the Snake' and a corrido

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