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José Guadalupe Posada|Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Broadsheet relating to the American Mosquito with verse critical of American imperialism

1903
Type-metal engraving and letterpress on tan paper
30 × 20 cm (11.8 × 7.9 in)

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