PHOTOGRAPHIC HERITAGE

The Image Centre currently has more than one million images taken by professional and amateur photographers, from both personal and family collections.

Thematic scope
Institutional photography / Press photography / Heritage photography
Family photography / Commercial and Advertising photography / Artistic photography / Nature photography

Geographic scope
Regions of Girona / Towns of Girona / Catalonia / Spain / Europe / Central America
Amèrica Central

Chronological scope
From 1855 to today

Collection	Chronology of images	Number of fixed / moving images
1. Provincial Administration Fonds
1. Diputacio de Girona fonds	1845-present (open fonds)	+/- 100,000 photographs (glass plate negatives, plastic negatives, paper positives, digital images)
2. Institutional Fonds
2. Greenways Consortium Fonds	1999 - 2001	331 photographs
3. Collection of the Geography and History Seminar of the Jaume Vicens Vives Institute	1849-1930	1,408 photographs
4. Salesians Collection.	Dates of creation and addition: 1899-1955	25 digital images.
3. Private fonds and collections
1. Company fonds
1. L'Indépendant Fonds	1966-1977	958 photographs
2. Video Play Fonds	1984 - 2008	228 audiovisual and 113 photos
2. Family fonds
1. Lluís Hugas i Grau Fonds	1940-1960	4,424 photographs
4. Ferrer Culubret - Morros Sardá Fonds	ca. 1900-1935	242
5. Elias Pagès Fonds	1850-1970	1,000 photographs, 26 films
6. Lobo Serra Batlle Fonds	1850-1994	5,000 photographs
3. Personal fonds and collections
1. Pablo García Cortés, Pablito fonds	1957 - 1984	+/- 200.000 photographs
2. Comalat Fonds	1979 - 1987	90.000 photographs
3. Dani Duch fonds	1978 - 2001	+/- 53.000 photographs
4. Rafael Vilarrubias Fonds	1925 - 1953	812 photograhs
5. Jordi Soler Fonds	1960-2006	16.356 photographs
6. Joaquim Cabezas collection	1860 - 1950	287 photographs
7. Pagès Fuertes collection	1855-1960	126 photographs
8. Valentí Fargnoli Fonds	1902 - 1944	834 photographs
9. Martí Roura fonds	1941 - 1980	321 photographs
10. Josep Maria Vila Collection	1910-1950	106 photographs on paper
11. Pascual Menacho Collection	1941-1950	122 photographs
12. Jordi Bertran Gallart Fonds	1956	8 photographs
13. Antoni Martí Fonds	1969 - 1984	28 audiovisual and 13 photos
14. Emili Massanas i Burcet Fonds and Collection	1855 - 1990	+/- 20.000
15. Ruiz fonds	1955 - 2008	>150.000
16. Miquel Bataller i Fàbregas Fonds	1960 - 1970	1,200
17. Carreras Canals Fonds	1950-1970	40 stills (black and white 35mm polyester plastic negatives) and 86 gelatin POP photographs (gelatin and silver chemical developing) on paper, in black and white.
19. Quim Giró Collection	Late 19th century - mid 20th century	82
20. Iglesias-Xifra Fonds	Mid 19th century -1970	1.235 photographs
22. Col·lecció Rabell Rigau	1920-1960	184 postcards
23. Josep Iglésias i Trias Collection	1979 - 2016	+/- 124.000 fotografies
24. Marçal Molas Collection	1990-2016	133,500 analogue photographs and 61,800 digital images
26. Manel Lladó Aliu Fonds (in process)	1984-2021	150,000 photographs
28. Pius Pujades Fonds	1960-1980	1,054 prints on paper (collection: 259, personal fonds: 791)
29. Fons Josep Maria Bohigas Pujol	1950 to 1990	1,140
30. Josep Fontbernat Verdaguer Fonds	Start and end dates: 1906-1975	50 photographs
31. Ernest Costa Savoia Fonds	1962-2014	15,246 digital images, with magnetic support, 4,724 × 4,724 pixels, uncompressed TIFF; color depth: 16 bits per channel; capture resolution: 400 dpi; memory volume: 125 MB.
32. Fons Manel Sarassa	1930-1960	17 Photographs
33. Julio Esteban Ascension Collection	1950-1970	1 album with 109 photographs
34. Fons F. Ponsatí (MMECAE)	1970-1990	30 films and 2 posters
35. Kim Castells Fonds	1979-2017	10,970 photographs and 15,246 digital images
36. Ramon Vila Sanllehí Fonds	1964-2010	40,000 photographs
37. Martí Calvo fonds	1960-2000	37,000 photographs in different formats: 35 mm, 6 × 6, 6 × 7, and 9 × 12 cm negatives in black and white and color on cellulose acetate; and 30 x 40 cm photographic copies on paper.
38. Banús-March Collection	Initial date: 1990 End date: 2003	35,570 colour photographs (5 x 35mm polyester negatives, 2 paper prints, 35,115 polyester slides and 450 transparencies in the following formats: 35 mm, 6 × 4.5 cm, 6 × 6 cm, 6 × 7.5 cm, 6 × 8.5 cm i 12.5 × 10 cm), 1 CD and related documents.
4. Factitious collections
1. Col·lecció d'àlbums
2. Direct positive camera collection	1849-1890	4 daguerreotypes, 3 ambrotypes, 1 ferrotype, 1 salt paper.
3. Positive print collection	1888-1956	4 albumen prints; 1 made using an unknown color procedure; 8 photographs, prints (paper), black and white, 6 x 8.5 format, gelatin silver (DOP) process.

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Location Legal notice Diputació de Girona 2018