Producer history
Juan Morros García (León, 1867-1936). Originally from León, he received his doctorate in medicine from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1901, with a thesis entitled La intoxicación alcohólica (Alcoholic Intoxication). He lectured in general pathology and therapeutics from 1903 onwards, first in Zaragoza and then in León, and he served as the director of the Escuela de Veterinaria, the veterinary school in León, between 1908 and 1936. From his marriage to Julieta Sardá Pedragrosa he had four children: José (1901-1961) and Julio, also doctors in medicine and veterinary medicine, Julia (1902-1983), and Juan (1904 - ca. 1989), a State lawyer in the Lugo tax office. He died in December 1936, in León.
Salvador Ferrer Culubret (Salt, 1902 - Girona, 1985) and Julia Morros Sardá (León, 1902 - Madrid, 1983) met in 1922 in Madrid, when they enrolled in the science department of the Escuela de Estudios Superiores de Magisterio to train as education inspectors. In 1932, after getting married, they obtained a grant from the Junta per a l¿Ampliació d¿Estudis i Investigacions Científiques to continue studying teaching-related subjects in Paris, Brussels and Geneva. On their return they worked as primary education inspectors in León and became actively involved in social and cultural renewal based on political militancy. In 1936, they were removed from their posts due to their lack of affection for the Franco regime, and Ferrer was imprisoned, accused of military rebellion. After a harsh period of repression, they were reinstated in active service and resumed their professional activity as teachers in several schools in the provinces of Lugo, Burgos, Ávila and Guadalajara. In 1964, they finally settled in Madrid, after Morros obtained a position as a full-time teacher at the Escuela de Magisterio María Díaz Jiménez, an institution she headed until she retired in 1972. Both resided in the city until Morros' death in 1983.
Archive history
This family collection was held by the Girona educator Maria Lluïsa Ferrer i Martínez (Girona, 1944), the niece of Ferrer i Morros, and it was presented to INSPAI in 2010, together with her husband's personal collection, the photographer Miquel Bataller i Fàbregas. Between 2011 and 2012, it was catalogued and preserved using permanent conservation material. The photographs on glass were restored by an external professional in 2013. In 2019, these were digitised in high resolution using a medium format digital camera (Phase One A/S). In 2021, the catalogue was revised and the collection was made available to users through the INSPAI website.
