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José Guadalupe Posada|Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Broadsheet showing the perpetrators of the crime on Profesa Street on their way to San Juan de Ulua

ca. 1891
Type-metal engraving and letterpress on buff paper
40 × 30 cm (15.7 × 11.8 in)

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