Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Swollen Holddown Games

Abelardo Linares, Toledo photographer



The first picture postcards began circulating in our country in 1892. The first publisher of postcards in Spain was "collotype Hauser y Menet," which, in the middle of 1900 already had more than 600 different postcards for sale. Between 1901 and 1905, postcards reached a wide dissemination, are reported printing issues and reached great perfection, rarely exceeded later, as the runs were very high, have been preserved hundreds of thousands of postcards that have the back without breaking.

In 1905 the Directorate General of Posts and Telegraphs authorized the first English-backed postal divided. Between 1906 and 1015 continued the hobby of collecting postcards, much correspondence with family and friends, who with several alternatives, has come down to our time. The

previous data, taken, in summary form, the interesting book by Carlos Teixidor "The postcard in Spain", serve as a reference for framing the series "Memories of Toledo" the editor and photographer Abelardo Linares, some of which reproduce postcards. Write

Torija Beatriz Sanchez in his valuable book "Casiano Alguacil" Abelardo Linares who was born in Granada in 1870 and died in Toledo in 1937. In this city installed by 1911 in the numbers 56 and 58 Commerce Street antique business that by 1914 became a photo studio. As a photographer specializing in the performance of view of the Imperial City and photograph the tourists who came to Toledo. El Granada photographer calling himself SM and extension purposes, reproductions, oleography, digital films and plates, printing of tests and everything connected with this art. Publio Lopez Mondejar in his "Chronicle of the Light, says Abelardo Linares did not make for yourself or a single photograph but the guild hired as professionals and Eloy Molina Garrido, to perform these tasks.
From the Series I's "Recuerdos de Toledo de Abelardo Linares, I selected two photographs of the door hinge, exterior and interior. No exact date they were taken, but in any case before 1934, when the "liberation" of the door, as I read the entry "door hinge" (Sunday, September 13, 2009) the wonderful blog "Toledo forgotten" by Eduardo Sanchez Butragueño which is essential reading for all lovers of Toledo, and that includes many photographs of the main entrance to Toledo over his last 150 years of history (although would not have the two attached)
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November, 2009

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