The 2.000 photos to go through the history of Dénia from the 70th century to the XNUMXs of the XNUMXth
The Municipal Archive of Dénia has received today an immense gift: pieces of history in the form of photographs. All thanks to the donation of Bernat Cardona Bañó and Pepa Far Ripoll, which has been delivered by Cardona himself to Vicent Grimalt, to the Councilor for Culture, Raúl García de la Reina, and to the municipal archivist, Rosa Seser, in the plenary hall from the town hall this Wednesday.
It is a collection of 2.150 photographs from between the 70th century and the XNUMXs of the XNUMXth, many of them linked to Dénia. But also, as Rosa Seser explained to the media, it incorporates historical documents and forms about the city, as well as some objects related to the photographic world (a camera, a storage box and a developing machine).
As Bernat Cardona has explained, the collection has been growing based on acquisitions and donations. Many of the photos were bought at flea markets, but too many are recovered from the trash, which Cardona laments. "You are accumulating and the best thing, in the end, is to donate it to the Archive, to the Archive of my town," he pointed out.
Both the mayor and the mayor of Culture have been very grateful for the donation, in the same line as Rosa Seser, who has highlighted the importance of such an extensive collection, which has a state of conservation like few others and that has been well cataloged. The archivist has highlighted several collections, in which famous faces from the history of Dénia appear, and as a curiosity the appearance of a portrait of the burial of Adela Gómez, daughter of the former mayor of Dénia between 1899 and 1900, the doctor Augusto Gómez Porta , who died at the age of 18 in 1906. The photograph is exceptional because the body is shown with the coffin open, something that Seser claims to have seen in towns in the interior of the region but not before in Dénia.
In addition, Seser has taken the opportunity to appeal to collectors to be encouraged to make donations to the Archive and prevent everything from ending up in the trash and, therefore, in oblivion.
