Consultation of the documentation
The Fund Chart of the Reus Municipal Archive
The essential function of the Holdings Organization Chart (QdOF) is to list and identify each documentary holding and each collection held by the Archive. It will therefore be the first informative and descriptive instrument of the archive's content.
Access the Funds Organization Table of the Reus Municipal Archives (PDF) (under revision)
FUNDS GUIDE
The Guide is one of the basic description instruments. Its aim is to provide information on all or part of the archive's documentary funds, providing generic data on the large documentary groups, on the history of the producing bodies and on the archive.
We understand by fons the set of documents of any kind produced by a person, organization or institution in the exercise of its activities throughout its life or existence.
We understand by collection the set of documents gathered voluntarily with thematic, typological, geographical, chronological criteria, etc. by one or more persons, entities or institutions.
- Fund of the local administration
- Reus City Council fund
It includes the set of documentation generated by Reus City Council throughout its existence, within the framework of its own functions and activities, i.e. government action, organization and administrative management, management of municipal assets, management of economic and financial resources, territory management (urban planning, works and mobility), sustainability and environment, planning and promotion of economic activity, education, culture, welfare and health and security and public protection.
Access the description of the Reus City Council fund (link to pdf)
- Collection of parchments from the municipal collection
Catalog of the parchments of the Municipal Archives of Reus between the years 1020 and 1350. In total, there are two hundred and eighty-six documents. Of all of them, some of the essential documents for the history of the city can be highlighted, such as the two population charters or the market and fair concessions.
(Note: work is underway on the description of the rest of the scrolls that are part of the municipal fund of Reus)
- Personal funds
We call personal funds the set of documents that a person has gathered throughout his life in the exercise of his professional, intellectual, economic activity, etc.
- Enriqueta Prats Auqué Fund
Enriqueta Prats was born in Reus on September 6, 1928. She studied dance in Barcelona and, once back in Reus, founded the Artis Academy in 1947, the first dance school in the city. Pioneer in research on the dancer Rosa Mauri, whose figure she has highlighted and recovered their memory and professional career
Access the description of the Enriqueta Prats Auqué fund (link to pdf)
- Xavier Amorós Solà fund
Xavier Amorós Solà is a writer, poet and journalist from Reus, born on April 7, 1923 in Reus. His literary career began with poetry and theater but he soon abandoned those disciplines to devote himself fully to his most prominent talent, that of prose and personal memoirs. Among his most outstanding memorial titles, we should mention El camí dels Morts, Histórias de la plaça de Prim, Tomb de ravals and Strange times. Among the most important literary prizes he has won are the Santiago Rusiñol prize (1958), the Carles Riba prize (1964) and the Catalan Literature and Poetry Prize of the Generalitat of Catalonia (1982).
Access the description of the Xavier Amorós Solà fund (link to pdf)
- Fund Cels Gomis and Mestre
Formed by the set of documents produced and received by Cels Gomis and Mestre in the exercise of their personal and professional activities. In this last area, we highlight the activities carried out in the field of popular culture research and dissemination, from the perspective of paremiology, vocabulary, phraseology and oral literature, beliefs and religiosity. It is also necessary to emphasize the documentary references to his professional activity as a road and railway engineer that led him to participate in several public works, especially those of laying out the railway lines built from the last quarter of the 19th century.
Access the description of the Cels Gomis i Mestre fund (coming soon)
- Commercial / business funds
We call commercial and/or business funds the set of documents that a trade or company has gathered throughout its existence as a result of its activity.
- Fonds Ràdio Reus- Cadena SER
Set of sound documentation generated by Ràdio Reus broadcasts from 1935 to 2012. It consists of 743 sound recordings in digital format. They are, for the most part, self-produced programs broadcast by Ràdio Reus: news specials, reports, debates, colloquiums and gatherings, conferences, sports programs, music programs, advertisements and publicity, advertorials, voice-overs, magazines, interviews, etc. Nearly 280 hours of recording. The volume of the fund is 17,9 Gb. The documentation was digitized thanks to the Reddis Private Foundation.
- Extreme years: 1935-2012
- Type of document: sound document
- Volume: 743 recordings (digital)
- Access: public
Access the catalog of the Ràdio Reus-Cadena SER digital collection
Access the description of the Ràdio Reus-Cadena SER fund
Access to digital archives: the holder of the rights is the Reus City Council and the type of license is BY-NC-ND (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.ca)
Request form for access to the digitized archives of Ràdio Reus - Cadena SER
- Funds of entities and/or associations
EThe funds of entities and/or associations include documentary funds generated by associations, entities, private groups.
- Fons from the La Vicxeta Theater Group
The La Vitxeta Theater Group was founded in 1983 with the aim of grouping the theatrical initiatives of Reus, the region and area of influence. Despite being an independent theater company that worked outside the Barcelona circuit, it should be noted that its activity, during its twenty years of existence, was intense and continuous. A record of more than 28 theatrical productions of which 400 performances have been made throughout Catalonia attest to his career. The Collective was disbanded in 2003. From 2004, some of the actors of the La Vitxeta Collective set up the En Veu Alta Collective, of the Reading Center Library, offering cycles of readings dramatized to this day. The fund includes documentation relating to its constitution, the entity's financial management, artistic production, communication and public projection and informational resources. It is worth noting the collection of posters referring to both theatrical programs and works performed. Includes a collection of photographs of the various works.
- Extreme years: 1983-2003
- Type of document: textual, photographic, audiovisual and graphic work
- Volume: 0,9 linear meters (add the 34 posters)
- Access: public
Access the description of the La Vicxeta Theater Collective fund
- Fons of the organization "El Círcol"
El Círcol is a recreational association founded in 1852 by 119 members of the industrial, commercial and landowning elite, some progressives, of the city of Reus that welcomed wealthy people of all ideological tendencies. It was popularly known as "El Círcol dels Senyors" and held high-class dances and cultural activities such as reading, games and theater.
The El Círcol collection is an excellent source for the political and sociocultural history of the upper class of the city of Reus. The documentation in the collection allows us to trace and relate people and families from Reus, as many of its members have been illustrious figures in the city since the mid-19th century.
- Fund of the Illustrious Bar Association of Reus
The Illustrious Bar Association of Reus was founded on January 19, 1845, at the initiative of a group of 13 lawyers, then under the name of Noble Bar Association of Reus. The reason for its foundation is closely related to the historical context of the country, since it was in the first half of the 19th century that there was an industrial explosion with the textile industry at the forefront and a series of commercial companies appeared. This made Reus a state socioeconomic reference, while at the same time giving wings to practicing lawyers to provide the city with a Bar Association. The first dean was Sebastián Torroja. The 1846 census already included about 25 members, a number that has increased to reach the 490 that there are today.
The collection of the Illustrious Bar Association of Reus has preserved the documentation produced and received by the entity between 1896 and 2024, although the beginnings of the entity date back to 1845. With a total of 244 documentary units, the collection contains various documentation of the organization and general administration of the entity, such as the statutes, regulations, reports, minutes of the Governing Boards and internal elections. It also contains economic documentation such as annual accounts, budgets and invoices; in addition to incoming and outgoing correspondence, invitations to events of other entities, publications, press releases, and the organization of events and internal activities of the Bar Association.
- Collection of Reus parchments from the Pia Almoina collection of the Barcelona Cathedral
The Pia Almoina, born in the mid-12th century, was a charitable and benevolent institution whose purpose was to feed the poor of the city of Barcelona. In addition to several towns in the Barcelona area, there were other towns where the Almoina spread, most of them close to the capital but also some more distant areas, including Reus. Through an agreement with the Barcelona Chapter Archive, more than a hundred parchments, mostly from the 14th century, have been described and digitized. Through the information that these documents provide us, we will be able to complement our knowledge of the city in the late medieval period. These are mainly sales of censuses (some authentic copies made a few years after the original date), sales of land and apocalypts that acknowledge the payment of money for purchases. Most refer to the term of Reus, but there are also some from Tarragona, Riudoms and Constantí. These land sales include the term in which they are located, the departure and the confrontations.
The documents provide us, in addition to various economic and heritage information, with onomastic and toponymic data from the area, which will enrich the information and news that we have had so far about this period.
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