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Big bunch of serving maids that, for being so pretentious, will become putrid and smelly calaveras
| Content Provider | Library of Congress - Photographs |
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| Spatial Coverage | Mexico |
| Description | Broadside, on recto, shows skeletons purchasing such items as candles and sugar skulls for the Day of the Dead celebration. A female skeleton carrying a skull and a male skeleton carrying a basket face each other lower left and lower right. The text, in verse, jokes about the graces of serving maids who are not to be trusted with one's love. On the verso are four skeletons, two in fancy dress (male and female) and two others in simple clothing (male and female). The verso text conveys a calavera in verse directed at catrinas and catrines (fancy ladies and dandies), saying no matter how well groomed they may be they will wind up in hell with all their pretenses. Also on the verso there is a short calavera verse titled "Epitaphs." This broadside is similar to PGA - Vanegas, no. 35, except no. 35 is printed on brown wood paper and has different borders and headline fonts. |
| File Format | JPG / JPEG |
| Language | English |
| Part of Series | Popular Graphic Arts |
| Requires | HTML5 supported browser |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | All Souls' Day--1890-1910. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Servants--Mexico--1890-1910. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Dandies--Mexico--1890-1910. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Snobbishness--1890-1910. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Celebrations--Mexico--1890-1910. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Skeletons--1890-1910. |
| Alternative Title | Gran bola de garbanceras que, por ser muy pretensiosas, se volverán calaveras podridas y apestosas |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Photograph |
