The Department of Culture of the City of Caravaca de la Cruz celebrates in the former Jesuit the third exhibition of the photographic archive Martínez-Litrán.
The exhibition will remain open until March 7, is composed of more than 4,000 images, taken between 1645 and 1979.
The photographic collection Martínez-Litrán belongs to the Municipal Archives of Caravaca de la Cruz and is composed of over 70,000 negatives studio founded in the early '20s by José Martínez Salinas and continued, from the 60s, by Alfonso Litrán Nogueras.
The Department of Culture initiated the project of restoration and conservation of the file, with the restoration, scanning and digitizing the negative several years.
"The goal for the last three years has been that these images, with which you can conduct a detailed review of the caravaqueña twentieth-century society, go to light gradually," as highlighted Councilwoman Maria Cruz Perez, who also stressed the great success of audience who have had the two exhibitions held previously.
The Department of Culture will provide photographs for free by family members who are interested in keeping them.
To do this you only need to enter the code that accompanies each image exposure and fill out a form.
Also, through the municipal website (www.caravaca.org) can access the part of the file that is already digitized.
The exhibition is open until 7 March, from 11.00 to 13.30 and from 17.30 to 20.30.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz