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For many years, the Museum has kept the standard (MB 19326) in its collections, the provenance of which is completely unknown, as there is no record of its entry. In 2008, the grandson of Francesc Flos Calcat, author of the design, donated the drawing of the banner project (MB 11817) and the life-size template for the text of the banner (MB 11857). This donation made the grouping of these three pieces possible.

All of this has its origin in the celebration of the union of the choral societies of Badalona, which was celebrated on March 9th, 1895 at the Zorrilla Theater to commemorate the union of three of the town’s choral societies: the Societat Coral de Socors Mutus Alba, Societat Coral la Badalonense and Societat Coral La Palma.

According to the description that can be read in the weekly El Eco de Badalona of March 2nd, 1895, in an intermission, Pere Viñas Renom gave the societies a magnificent banner or standard as a souvenir of the bond of union that was celebrated in that act

If you want to read more information about the event, you can take a look to El Eco de Badalona, of March 2nd, 1895 and March 16th, 1895

From the Museum, with the collaboration of the artist’s family, we are preparing, for the autumn, an exhibition and a catalogue dedicated to Joaquim Torrents Lladó (Badalona 1946 – Palma de Mallorca 1993), internationally recognized painter, considered one of the great portrait artists of the country.

We would like to expand the knowledge of his production as much as possible, and we ask that, if you have any of his works, please contact the Museum to help us to delve deeper into his career.

You can write to: dnieto@museudebadalona.cat or call 933 841 750.

Joaquim Torrents Lladó painting. Photo: Jaume Gual

Last December, the Museum opened a photo exhibition that reviews everyday life and shows aspects of the city and its people during the winter months of different years.

When we were preparing it, a photograph really caught our attention because we thought we recognized a piece that appeared in it and is kept in the Museum’s collection. Having checked and confirmed the fact, we explain to you which piece it is and what we know about it, and relate it also to the photograph.

It is a standard (MB 2057) on which the text Escuela pública de párvulos is embroidered on one side and the coat of arms of Badalona (prior to 1914) on the other. The photograph in which it appears corresponds to the celebration of the Festival of the Tree on March 4th, 1906, which took place in the area of the Rosés hill.

The first tree festivals in Catalonia took place in the spring of 1899 and soon spread throughout the territory. It was a day that wanted to spread the importance of trees as regulators of the water cycle, protectors against erosion and shapers of the landscape.

The Badalona celebration that appears in the original image, made by the Sayol Brothers and of which a 13 x 18 cm glass negative is preserved in the Museum’s Image Archive, was attended by the local authorities and the representatives of Badalona and also some from Barcelona. After the events and parliaments, more than 2,000 snacks were distributed to the students of the schools that attended.

If you want to know all the details of this celebration, do not miss the news published by El Eco de Badalona, dated March 10th, 1906:

https://www.museudebadalona.cat/arxiu/hemeroteca/el-eco-de-badalona

Standard Escuela pública de párvulos (Badalona City Council)[before 1906]. MB 2057

Tree Festival in Badalona, 4th March 1906. Germans Sayol/MB. Arxiu Josep M. Cuyàs.

You can consult online some of the oldest registers and censuses of Badalona that are preserved in the Historical Archive of the City of Badalona (AHBDN). An essential source that we now put on the Museum’s website, available to researchers and the general public, interested in the history of our city.

The Population Census is the relationship of the demographic, economic and social data of a population, in this case, Badalona. The information collected – address, people’s names, sex, age, marital status, level of education and other economic data – changes little between the different registers. The censuses preserved in the Historical Archive of the City of Badalona go from the 19th century to 1940, but in this first phase it is only possible to consult online an incomplete census dated to the 19th century, and those of 1857 and 1860.

Regarding the municipal register of inhabitants, it is the registration of people who live in the municipality carried out by the City Council with the function of accrediting residence in a specific address. The AHBDN keeps one of the oldest registers in Catalonia, the one from 1717, which can now be consulted online together with the rest of the registers kept in the archive until 1914. The rest of registers, which reach up to the year 1945, they still won’t find them on the web.

Although both censuses and registers collect information on the same inhabitants, there are some differences in terms of their purpose and content. While the census has a statistical nature and is carried out at state level with the aim of collecting demographic and social information on the number and distribution of the population, the registers are carried out by the municipalities and have a purely administrative function.

With this new resource, the range of tools for people who want to do research is expanded, while at the same time ensuring the conservation of these important historical funds, avoiding manipulation that could deteriorate them.

VIEW THE PAGE OF POPULATION CENSUS ONLINE

VIEW THE PAGE OF MUNICIPAL REGISTER OF INHABITANTS