
Barcelona, a theme park

Joan Alemany Casany, asylum in the old hospital of San Joan de Deu learning to sew espadrilles

“FOMENTO HORTENSE. State of the building on May 30, 1918”

Moorish dance

Somorrostro beach huts

The group of workers employed in the Salines de Cardona before the discovery of potassium salts.

Boats and planes. 1930

Quart De Fàbula, Baix Montseny International Oral Narrative Festival

Republican fighters and places on the Aragon front

1st Gay Pride Demonstration, 1977

General view of Port del Masnou where regattas are held.

Head of the demonstration in favor of the right to abortion in Barcelona

Collection of photographs from the Josep Juncadella fund

Blasting of the last chimney of the old factory in Mar, Vilanova i la Geltrú. Author Jordi Más and Morando

Honorary reception for the scientist Albert Einstein offered by Barcelona City Council. 27/02/1923

Breakfast offered by Barcelona City Council to the Archdukes of Austria Antoni Josep and Francesc Josep as part of the Barcelona International Exhibition

Photograph of a boat with sail unfurled and a group of crew on top of the boat.
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Photocomposition of the Magic Fountain. [Carles Buïgas]

Offer of an armored tank by Constructora Field to the government of the Generalitat

Students of the Institute of Culture and Popular Women’s Library, 1921. Unknown authorship. Funds: Institute of Culture and Popular Women’s Library.

General view of the town of Tragó de Noguera from the Noguera Ribagorçana river

Cycling race with Miquel Poblet in Sallent. Author: Joan Lladó

Nursery room of the nursing children’s pavilion of the House of Charity of Tarragona

Construction of the cooperative winery in Pinell de Brai, in 1918. You can see the parabolic arches and the reinforcement of the concrete vats. Author: Unknown.

Float of decorated bicycles, on Rambla del Vendrell, during the Bicycle Festival. Photograph by Feliu Olivé Nin. Feliu Olivé Nin fund.

Joan Casanovas Maristany and his son in exile in Besiers (France)

Women weeding on the banks of the Ribera d’Isil

La Farola, by a student from the Paco Candel school in l’Hospitalet

Plaza de la Villa
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Woman worker making a light bulb in a factory of the company [General Electric]

Opening of the Mediterranean Games

Family trip to Narbonne (France) and view of the exterior of the transept of the Cathedral of Saint Just and Saint Pastor

Announcement of the Esplugues Festival of Llobregat at Espai Corberó, September 16, 2022. Photographer Humbert Blanco.

Competition for the promotion and improvement of the Dutch breed dairy cow

Laura Orgue’s participation in the Vertical Cabanera 2017, scoring in the World Cup

Rita Massalvà Cuyner, wife of Josep Antoni Fàbregas Amigó, india manufacturers in Igualada.

Record of the invention of the Sor Ruler, 1909. Funds: Casa de Caritat.

Photo of Colonia Rosal

View of Moll de Costa with a large steamer docked where goods are loaded.
On the esplanade of the pier, bottles of wine and people working.
postcard Tarragona Coast Pier detail Edited by Josep Anguela.

Josep Tarradelles visiting the monument to Cardinal Vidal i Barraquer in Cambrils

The members of the cooperative La Econòmica on an excursion to the house “Subaró”

Report about fishermen and their wives

Cantut Festival

First stone of the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper

Union of winegrowers of Sarral (Tarragona). Interior view of the cooperative cellar.

Provincial archaeological museum. Sepulcher of Ot de Moncada and his wife. In the chapel of the Moncadas, located in the Seu Vella de Lleida

Let’s crush fascism (Poster/Pere Català i Pic)

Opening ceremony of the Barcelona ’92 Olympic Games

General view of the monastery of Santes Creus, with the bridge over the river Gaià in the foreground, ca. 1895. Author: Ramon Rozada Suárez (attributed)

Demonstration for the self-determination of Catalonia in Girona

Meeting of giants at the Folgueroles Festival

Visit of Lluís Companys to the Hispano Olivetti factory

Chamber of the Parliament of Catalonia

Arrival of the head of the S.S. German Heinrich Himmler. 23/10/1940

Concentration at the Palau de Justice in Barcelona in support of Maria Ángeles Muñoz. “I am also an adulteress.”

The craft of boter

Panoramic view of the Cardona Salt Flats with the Salt Mountain in the center and the walled town on the right, corresponding to the topographical survey made by the “Sociedad Estereográfica Españoola” and the engineer José Maria Torroja.

Photograph of Les Caramelles del Roser in Carrer de Sant Roc, in front of Can Fusterpuig, 1920s. Author unknown

Women and children collecting water at the fountain in Plaça del Pou, in Vilanova i la Geltrú

Caravan of cars on the border of Spain in the direction of France

Propaganda leaflet of the Institute of Culture and Popular Women’s Library

Barcelona Castellers de Barcelona at the XXV Anniversary of the Declaration of the Rights of Man

We crush fascism

Dance of maidens in the Porchada for carnival

View of the tents in the refugee camp

Portrait of the panel of glazed and polychrome ceramic tiles found in the Roser de Valls chapel.

Burning Chapel of Buenaventura Durruti

Feasts of Santa Tecla

Photograph of trucks loaded with logs in front of the snowy Pedraforca

A child looks at some books from the other side of the glass of a bookstore, in Barcelona

Photograph, composed of four moments, of the fire at the Pont de Barques de Tortosa

“General Store”, one of the decorative buildings in the town of the American West that housed the Balcázar film studios, known for Esplugas City.

Photomontage on the railway

Match seller in a street in Barcelona

Can Clota, home of the Barony of Vilagaià, in the 1910s.

Main facade of Palau Güell, 2014. Author: Montserrat Baldomà.

Fisherman collecting art at Platja Gran de Tossa de Mar

Trip to Germany organized by Agricultural Extension, party at the Rasenhud hotel

Backpack manufacturing workshop for the republican army during the Civil War.

Lluís Martí-Codolar and Gelabert with two camels, in the gardens of the Granja Vella de Martí-Codolar

Aerial view of a house in Aiguafreda surrounded by the Congost River in the 1965 flood.

1st International Congress of the Catalan Language

Castellera Day at Plaça Paeria in Lleida

Universal Exhibition of 1888, in Barcelona. View of the grounds from the captive balloon.

Sardana of the town of Cassà by Josep Coll

The Congost river as it passes through Aiguafreda, flood of 1965.

Teaching activity. Catalan courses. 01.10.1957 / 31.12.1990

Inauguration of the first section of the Trans-Pyrenean Railway

Boy and girl posing with editions of the newspaper “L’Independant” in front of a newsstand

Strike of the weavers of the Ódena basin in Igualada, in 1881.

Photograph of the racks and looms of the textile factory of Cal Xiquet de Prats de Lluçanès

Sorrowful Stabat Mater. Franz Joseph Hayden

Fabric samples

Workers in a cork factory

Barcelona Universal Exhibition. Aerial view taken from the captive balloon

Group of farmers from Tivissa, made up of men and women of various ages, showing the grapes obtained during the harvest

Camil Mulleras factory staff in Poblenou

Arrival of two and a half million tourists at the La Jonquera border crossing

Photograph of Cellers Jean Mory and tank wagon

Men and women with flags celebrating the proclamation of the Catalan Republic, in front of the Lloret hotel, on the Rambla in Barcelona. 1931

Salvador Dalí’s visit to the Enrajolada-Casa Museu Santacana, 1975. Author: Fotografia Porta, Martorell. Fund: Provincial Council of Barcelona.

Les Gavarres unmissable natural park

Champ-de-Mars, Paris

Antoni Gaudí visits the Sagrada Família

Engraving from the Ateneu de Canet published in the collection. “Album Artistich de la Renaixensa”, May 1887

Page from one of the photo albums of the monastery of Sant Pere de les Puel·les in Barcelona with images taken in the Sau swamp (Osona) in the summer of 1971 during one of the community’s first holiday outings.

A. Haulot, general secretary of the Rencontres Européennes de Poésie (28.07.1951)

Fair of Sant Josep de Mollerussa

3-O strike in Esponellà

Photography Sector 4.1. Regulatory basin. Segarra-Garrigues

Holy Week procession in Montjuïc

Site visit and signing of the agreement with the French state for the construction of the Cerdanya Hospital, the first cross-border hospital in Europe.

Match between the Catalan National Team and the French National Team

Arrival of the Olympic flame at Seu d’Urgell

Working Class Ateneo Igualadí schools applying the Montessori method

Women and children in the barracks of Somorrostro, Barcelona

Models parading down the catwalk of the third national competition of Paper Dresses

Opening ceremony of the Barcelona ’92 Olympic Games

Canoe-kayak slalom world cup poster.

Swimmers in the old pool of Sallent

Children at bonfires of Sant Joan, in Barcelona

Workers on a scaffolding during the construction of the Sagrada Família towers, in Barcelona.

Rehabilitation works of the New Castle of Torredembarra

Group portrait of the members of the Flors de Maig sardanist group of the SCR l’Amistat de Mollerussa

Chef Jordi Llobet handles one of the salt shakers that sell Cardona salt since 2021.

Feast of the proclamation of the Basilica of Santa Maria de Castelló d’Empúries.

Images of a group of children doing gymnastics exercises at the Escola de Vallbona d’Anoia

Image of Dr. Aguilera visiting her two-year-old son through a glass to avoid possible contagion of Covid-19, on 04/05/2020

Panoramic view of the Vendrell iron bridge, 1888-1900. Photograph by unknown author.

Advertisement man at the height of the Palau Moja on the Rambla in Barcelona

Soldiers of the People’s Army of the Republic with a machine gun

EGB student exchange. La Bisbal – France.

Boat trip to Cala Montjoi (Roses) for a group of friends with babysitter and preparation of fish skewers to bake in the sand of the same beach

The president of Catalonia, Francesc Macià, in Solsona

Calçotada in Andorra la Vella on the occasion of the twinning with Valls, 1969. Author: Alfons Galimany

Photograph of the Tortosa flood of 1866

Nuns in the elections to deputies of the Parliament of Catalonia in 1933

3 of 8 of the Colla del Roser in Plaça del Blat de Valls, on 25/01/1863. Author: Jacinto Maranges (Ceretana Photography)

Seminar Museum. Detail of the altarpiece of the main alatar of the Seu Vella

Cooperative of Carpenters in Santa Maria 1936.

Success of hairdresser entrepreneur Antonieta Agustí de Torredembarra

VII European Championship of National Futsal Teams

Franco propaganda mural “Spain in Peace, Europe in ruins”

Fan with the program of the dances of the main festival of Santa Perpètua de Mogoda in 1922

Jury of the first castellar competition held in Plaça de Braus in Tarragona

Photograph by Esteve Albert and Corp

Feminist demonstration for the rape and murder of Antonia España as she passed through Gran Via and Passeig de Gràcia

Jerónimas Convent set on fire during the Tragic Week

Soccer players Albert Ferrer and Pep Guardiola showing off Barça’s first European Cup to Camp Nou fans

Carnival of Solsona, 1971

Banyoline rowers in the Banyoles lake

Tower of seven of the Castellers of Vilafranca in Pisa

The guard of police officers in the depository of works of art in the church of Sant Esteve d’Olot

Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Cami and Tower

Photos from the Emilio Daura Olivastri fund

Electoral event “Social Europe with women” during the European Parliament election campaign.

Studio portrait of notary Joan Carrera Busquets sitting in a chair.

Staircase of the Greek quarter and main street of Empúries, 1908. Author: Josep Esquirol Pérez. Monumental Catalog Collection of the Monuments Cataloging and Conservation Service of the Provincial Council of Barcelona
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Streets of Barcelona, possibly in the Ciutat Vella district. Cloister of Barcelona Cathedral [February 1948].

Protests for the high voltage line

Demolition of the Mercadal wall, in the city of Girona.

Simultaneous chess at the Foment Hortenc

Staff of the Municipal Archive of Santa Perpètua de Mogoda year 2024

Women’s football teams of Stoke and Les Sportives in the field of F.C. Barcelona, in 1923.

Man leaning on the Perthus sign

Port of Cambrils photographed by Antoni Campañà

Making castles in the concentration camp

2nd Sitges Award for motoring

The carnival pass

Photograph of the soprano Carmen Palazón dedicated to the writer Salvador Estrem i Fa

Industrial heritage of Osona

Iscle Soler and Samsot

Military rebellion of July 1936. Transfer of a wounded.

40th anniversary of the Twinning between the towns of Villars and Torredembarra

Staff meeting of the Banyolina company José Gimferrer S.A.

Portrait of physicist Albert Einstein with Josep Puig i Cadafalch

Children’s game

Main facade of the Palau de la Diputació, 1859. Author: Franck & Wigle. Fund: Provincial Council of Barcelona.

“The café of the Fomento Hortense on May 30, 1918”

Trip to Villeneuve-le-Roi (France) to sign the twinning agreement with Sant Feliu de Llobregat

Car cemetery in Camprodon, August 18, 1939. Background and authorship: Antoni Gallardo i Garriga.

German election polls on the steamer Halle. 1933

Archaeological site of the Greco-Roman ruins of Empúries

Missing urbanism of Vic

Portraits of cyclists from the Vendrell Sports Club.

Academics from the Royal Academy of Sciences of Barcelona releasing a balloon-probe

Horizontal furnace of the factory Cementos y Cales Freixa, SA.

Women: feminist manifestation

Mobile library no. 2 in Plaça de Sant Jaume, 31 May 1960. Author: Joaquín M. Domínguez Font. Fund: Provincial Council of Barcelona.

Photograph of Josep Masclans and Pascual inside the classroom of the National Children’s School in Vallbona d’Anoia.

Great Protectionist Demonstration initiated by the Promotion of Spanish Production

Military service of Josep Tarradellas in Melilla

Manufacturas Cañamás SA commercial bank. The hare and the tortoise.

Performance during the presentation “Women and work” of the Catalan Women’s Days at the University of Barcelona

Arrival of the 500,000th tourist at the airport of Girona – Costa Brava

Tennis on Rambla Just Oliveras

4 of 7 of the Colla Vella dels Xiquets de Valls in front of the Atomium, symbol of the Universal Exhibition in Brussels, between 24 and 26/07/1958. Author: Unknown

Group portrait of the school for girls in Castellbisbal, with teacher Carmen Canudas Busquets

Regatta competition during the celebration of the Barcelona Olympic Games in the lake of Banyoles

Pablo Picasso, his son Paulo, and Joan Junyer at Boisgeloup Castle (Normandy), c.1935. Unknown authorship. Background: Joan Junyer and Pascual.

“MEMBER TITLE”. Membership card no. 101 of the Hortenc Development

Temple of Theseus (or Hephaestus), in Athens, 1925. Author: Francesc Blasi Vallespinosa.

Life in the concentration camp: barber

Opening ceremony of the Barcelona ’92 Olympic Games

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Photograph of the Sant Miquel Fair in Lleida

Fire brigade of the city of Tàrrega

Vivianne van de Cauter, Miss Europe 1975, parades on top of a float of the Puigcerdà Lake Festival accompanied by young people from Cerda.

Photograph of Salvador Punsola factory staff taken around 1899.

Mayor Pasqual Maragall and the Olympic mascot “Cobi”

Friendly soccer match between the Barcelona national team and Europe at the Europa field, with the temple of the Sagrada Família in the background, 1917. Background and authorship: Frederic Juandó Alegret.

Cobwebs in the seats. Opening of the Parliament of Catalonia facilities for the first time since the Civil War. Barcelona, 1977

Tribute to the Catalan aviator Carles Coll

Interior of the exploitation chamber number 11 of the potassium salt mines of Cardona, owned by the company “Unión Española de Explosivos”, 600 meters deep and as big as a soccer field in terms of volume (note the human figure in the center).

Inauguration of the aerial railway at the Tibidabo Amusement Park. 1915

Emigrant to the Station of France. Barcelona, 1977

Museum of the Seminary. Images of the door of the apostles of the old See.

The last spring of a river

Portrait of Mercè Bassols and Xavier Montsalvatge.

Glass negative of an image of the plaster model of Lleó d’Arturo Mèlid’s head taken by Lluís Domènech.

Cambrils International Chamber Music Festival 1975

Antoni Gaudí in the procession of Corpus Christi

Group of girls in front of the Popular Library of Valls, undated. Author: Unknown.

Photograph of an inhabitant from Igualada who went to Puerto Rico in 1897

Threshing floor from the Canal of Urgell House in the midst of beating activity.

Photography Canadell. Wedding at Pont d’Armentera (Alt Camp) (AHT. Fondos Fotografia Canadell. Reg. 733)

Colored female bust within a medallion, with long braided hair, gold and coral half-dress and fan chain, of one of the first Tarragona photographers, Pere Pallejà, with a studio in Carrer de Sant Fructuós and then Carrer de la Unió.
(AHT. Fund Joaquim Cabezas Rectoret. Reg. 288/35)

Group portrait of the participants of the IV Congress of the Catalan Esperantist Federation, in Olot. Author unknown

Corpus, 1980. Barcelona

Ripollet Uralite factory

Passeig Miramar. In the foreground the Casa Gatell restaurant, the Torre del Port and the boats moored at Mollet del Rec. (AHT. Background Photo Raymond. Reg 23)

Photograph of the Fia-faia in Sant Julià de Cerdanyola. Prize of the XVII Photography Competition 2019. Title: “Fire and party”. Author: Sergi Boixader

Photograph of the pianist Ricard Viñes

Objects identifying creatures from the Maternity Home, 1944. Background: Maternity Home.

Execution of Isidre Mompart i Prats, in Barcelona

Train carriages painted by the Professional Union of Cartoonists with anti-fascist propaganda

Photographs of the construction of the Escales reservoir

Conference series Catalonia, Europe and the World

Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth president of the United States of America and Nobel Peace Prize laureate visits the interior of the Salt Mountain and its Cultural Park.

Participation of the Ball of Batons de Montblanc at the International meeting of traditional costumes of the Moselle in Kröv, Germany

Youths of the football team AD Calella de Palafrugell in Mirepoix (France).