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Today it has presented the exhibition of Cartagena in the international press of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
This is a collection of national and foreign periodicals donated by Fernando Brea Morales can be visited from today at the Municipal Archives in the old Artillery Park until 29 January.
The presentation of these specimens was the Councillor for Culture, Rosario Montero with Brea Brea Fernando Morales has presented the collection donated to the Municipal Archives.
It is bound copies or loose, ranging from the mid-nineteenth century to early twentieth centuries, that as explained Fernando Brea has gotten through antique shops in London, France and America, among other countries.
Publications represented in the collection are: Illustré Le Monde, L'Illustration: journal universel, Le Petit Journal, Le Magasin Pittoresque, France Militaire and L'Univers Illustré: journal hebdomadaire, all of Paris; Ueber Land und Meer: allgemeine Illustrirte Zeitung and Allgemeine Welt Illustrirte Familien-Zeitung, Stuttgart, The Graphic and The Illustrated London News, London, The Spanish and American Illustration, Madrid, Harper's Weekly: Journal of Civilization, New York.
Among this material, Rosario Montero, besides thanking Fernando Brea this assignment, stressed illustrated weeklies all the time of the uprising township, which nurtured the most interesting of the collection.
The councilor also stressed Cartagena from July 1873 until January 1874, attracts the attention of the foreign press with the War of Canton as demonstrated by these papers.
In this presentation also has been shown that major city newspapers sent their correspondents, who included in his chronicle the events of those days, while the magazines offered in its pages many engravings that reflect both the military actions as local environment.
These descriptions and engravings that illustrate them, and the aesthetic quality of the publications themselves, to the collection provide an extraordinary interest to the investigator and the curious bystander, for this reason has been shown Fernando Brea proud that City Council take the initiative to archive and digitize their copies.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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