NEW DOCUMENTS IN THE HISTORICAL ARCHIVE
The Historical Archive of the City Council of Eivissa has enriched its collection with new donations and acquisitions of documents, including an important collection of letters from individuals from the 1810 acquired from an antiquarian bookstore in Barcelona and a collection of old photographs, donation of Joan Juan Juan.
Donations come from very varied funds.. The card collection is made up of a total of 20 writings of the family of Pedro Pablo Beltrán, includes three letters signed by the former bishop of Ibiza 1805 A 1810, Blas Jacobo Beltrán. Is about 68 sheets where there are letters from relatives that make many references to life and commerce on the island at that time. Fourteen of the letters are dated in Ibiza and the others in different locations in Spain., like Calaf, Tarragona and Barcelona.
Another acquisition was a drawing by Leslie Grimes, donation from Alfonso G. Ninet. Grimes was an English painter who trained in Kingsten on Thames School of Arts, following the norms of post-romanticism.
In London, He exhibited in numerous galleries and also stood out as a caricaturist and cartoonist in the newspaper The Start. He exhibited for the first time in Ibiza in the years 1953 y 1954, in group exhibitions organized at the Ebusus Art Hall. At that time he presented pencil drawings and oil paintings on canvas, among which floral motifs and portraits predominate. a partir de 1960 He settled in Dalt Vila and painted landscapes of the city, of the port, images of beaches or rural churches, in which it is common to find human figures with ancient clothes, typical of the island. Apart from the Ibizan works, He also painted landscapes of England, Scotland, Denmark and Italy. His work is heir to the poetics of the French impressionists and was highly appreciated by the Ibizan public.. He often exhibited in Ibizan galleries and also in Mallorca. (at the Costa Galleries) and received in 1965 the Gold Medal of the II Contest of Painting of Landscapes and Customs of the Balearic Islands of the Provincial Council and in 1966 the Gold Medal of the V Pollença Summer Painting Show.
The Archive also has among the new acquisitions the book 'Bibliographic and biographical news on the History of Ibiza', of J. Selpac -pseudonym of the historian Josep Clapés-. This is a book published in 1887 and which has also been donated by Alfonso G. Ninet.
Among the new documents is also a plan of the slaughterhouse, an old parking lot for mules and horses 1900, bought from a private person and two drawings by Antoni Marí Ribas Portmany.
The new documents, which from now on form part of the Archive's collection, They are completed with an Esperanto dictionary published in Barcelona and a telephone directory of the Balearic Islands of 1930 and a telephone, which is part of a larger donation of furniture and materials from a Post Office donated by Andreu Carles López Seguí; and the donation by María Torres, of a diploma of participation of a relative in the Moroccan war. The diploma is signed by Primo de Rivera in 1928.
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