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José Guadalupe Posada|Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

News story about the sighting of a skeleton inside a holy temple, a man lying on the floor while a skeleton returns to a chamber and a cloaked figure exits to the right

1903
Zincograph and letterpress on tan paper
30 × 20.3 cm (11.8 × 8 in)

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