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Restrikes: items 336-361, 1888-1944

 Series — Box: 12

Scope and Content

From the Collection: This collection, compiled by noted Mexican art historian Fernando Gamboa, contains broadsides, portraits, chapbooks, and restrikes. The Gamboa collection consists of lithographs, etchings, and engravings by José Guadalupe Posada. A small number of prints in this collection have been attributed to Manuel Manilla or to other, unidentified printmakers. Many of these were published by the Vanegas Arroyo firm in Mexico City. The Gamboa collection contains 361 items: broadsides (108), bullfighter portrait series (5), chapbooks (9), leaflets (19), chapbook covers (12), and restrikes (208).

Included in the collection are songbooks, single-sheet corridos (popular ballads), how-to booklets on writing love letters and cooking, books of predictions, gameboards, lithographic portraits of bullfighters, devotional texts and images, and children's literature. All are illustrated by José Guadalupe Posada or, in some cases by Manuel Manilla and other (unidentified) artists. The restrikes were made c.1940-1944. These are prints of the illustration blocks without text. Subjects range from humorous to didactic, romantic to religious and political. Posada's signature "calaveras" (humorous skeletal figures) are represented, as are sensational crime and supernatural subjects, and popular songs printed by Mexico City's leading penny press publisher Antonio Vanegas Arroyo. Print processes include etching, type-metal engraving, and lithography.

Dates

  • 1888-1944

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Spanish

Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 361 items (12 boxes) : 108 broadsides, 5 portrait series, 9 chapbooks, 12 chapbook covers, 208 restrikes

Repository Details

Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository

Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451