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Commercial calavera. These calaveras are the real thing, meant for all tricky and fraudulent merchants
Content Provider | Library of Congress - Photographs |
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Spatial Coverage | Mexico |
Description | Broadside shows skeletons patronizing a merchant skeleton selling such items as candles and sugar skulls for the Day of the Dead celebration. The text, a calavera in verse, conveys how "la flaca" (death) is making her rounds amongst all the food vendors and taking them to the graveyard. |
File Format | JPG / JPEG |
Language | English |
Part of Series | Popular Graphic Arts |
Requires | HTML5 supported browser |
Access Restriction | Open |
Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Skeletons--1900-1910. |
Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Death--1900-1910. |
Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Celebrations--Mexico--1900-1910. |
Subject Domain (in LCSH) | All Souls' Day--1900-1910. |
Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Food vendors--Mexico--1900-1910. |
Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Vending stands--Mexico--1900-1910. |
Alternative Title | Calavera comercial. Estas son las calaveras de todos los comerciantes, les llegó la de deveras por tramposos y farsantes |
Content Type | Image |
Resource Type | Photograph |