Balazos en la calle de San Hipólito en un tren de las corridas de Atzcapotzalco.--Una señora asesinada.--Dos gendarmes gravemente herridos.--Aprehensión del asesino por un valiente y arrojado ciudadano
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Title
Balazos en la calle de San Hipólito en un tren de las corridas de Atzcapotzalco.--Una señora asesinada.--Dos gendarmes gravemente herridos.--Aprehensión del asesino por un valiente y arrojado ciudadano
Creator
José Guadalupe Posada
Subject
Mexico ; Posada , Jose Guadalupe 1851-1913 ; crime
Description
This page from the "Gaceta Callejera " newspaper uses text and image to relay a news item regarding a shooting that took place on a train traveling from the village of Atzcapozalco . It is illustrated with a print of a charro in the act of aiming his gun and firing at a soldier . Roberto Berdecio and Stanley Appelbaum in "Posada's Popular Mexican Prints " (New York : Dover Publication , Inc. , 1972) state on p . 84 , "The killer was Leopoldo Cárdenas , who followed his mistress Teodora Piedras onto a trolley and shot her. She was traveling with a young girl she called her sister... . The broadside shows the picture completed at left by the arrival of the two policemen , one of whom is being shot by Cárdenas. " Type-metal engraving . Unsigned . A portion of this image is reproduced in restrike FG0285 .
Publisher
Center for Southwest Research, University Libraries, University of New Mexico
Contributors
None
Date Original
August , 1892
Date Digital
2000
Type
Still image
Format
image/tif
Digitization Specifications
Epson Perfection 2450 PHOTO, 600 ppi, 8 bit
Resource Identifier
FG0011.tif
Source
ZIM CSWR Pict Colls PICT 999-019 for location ask Circulation Desk ; 11.5 x 17.6 cm .
Relation
Fernando Gamboa Collection of Prints by José Guadalupe Posada, 1888-1944
Rights
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UNM CSWR Fernando Gamboa Collection of Prints by José Guadalupe Posada
