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Antonio Vanegas Arroyo|José Guadalupe Posada

The grand electric skeleton, a large skeleton is hypnotizing a group of skulls and a sitting skeleton, an electric street car in the background

1907
Zincograph, type-metal engraving and letterpress on green paper
40 × 30.5 cm (15.7 × 12 in)

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