Photographic Archive
Mission and values
The Fundación Uriach 1838 photographic archive was created with the mission of developing archive policies and implanting a documentary management system for all the photographic material produced by the Uriach Group. In this way, the archive has been responsible for gathering, storing, cataloguing and disseminating this material from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day, for the whole of society.
The accomplishment of this objective is marked by values such as innovation and the incorporation of ICT, public service and the efficient management of the documentation using parameters based on quality and continual improvement in order to add value to our documentary heritage and guarantee its conservation and diffusion within the broad context of the information and knowledge society.
Collections
This archive includes photographs in which the element in common a specific topic, namely the history of the Uriach Group and by extension that of the Catalan and Spanish pharmaceutical industries. This fact is emphasised through the topics that are most evident in the images: industrial facilities and machinery, staff, institutional and cultural acts, the Uriach family, etc. Some of these have a marked artistic nature, due to the important status of some of the photographers included in the collection; for instance, Agustí Centelles i Ossó, Francesc català Roca, Martí Gasull Avellán, the “Napoleón” brothers, etc.
The adaptation of this material is an element of great value to allow historians and researchers who are interested in the pharmaceutical industry, photography and Catalan and Spanish society during the 20th and 21st centuries.
In parallel, the aim is to offer improved service to historians and researchers dedicated to the history of medicine, pharmacy, advertising and art, and above all, to provide a task of diffusion in order to be known by the public at large. Of the last three, what most interests us is to become known by teachers and pupils in primary and secondary education, in order to consolidate the application of teaching through the archive collections.
The archive offers, within the limits established by the internal regulations of Fundación Uriach 1838, a service for obtaining copies of its documentary collections by means of photocopies and the printing of digital images, among other methods.
The Fundación Uriach 1838 photographic archive was created with the mission of developing archive policies and implanting a documentary management system for all the photographic material produced by the Uriach Group. In this way, the archive has been responsible for gathering, storing, cataloguing and disseminating this material from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day, for the whole of society.
The accomplishment of this objective is marked by values such as innovation and the incorporation of ICT, public service and the efficient management of the documentation using parameters based on quality and continual improvement in order to add value to our documentary heritage and guarantee its conservation and diffusion within the broad context of the information and knowledge society.
Collections
This archive includes photographs in which the element in common a specific topic, namely the history of the Uriach Group and by extension that of the Catalan and Spanish pharmaceutical industries. This fact is emphasised through the topics that are most evident in the images: industrial facilities and machinery, staff, institutional and cultural acts, the Uriach family, etc. Some of these have a marked artistic nature, due to the important status of some of the photographers included in the collection; for instance, Agustí Centelles i Ossó, Francesc català Roca, Martí Gasull Avellán, the “Napoleón” brothers, etc.
The adaptation of this material is an element of great value to allow historians and researchers who are interested in the pharmaceutical industry, photography and Catalan and Spanish society during the 20th and 21st centuries.
In parallel, the aim is to offer improved service to historians and researchers dedicated to the history of medicine, pharmacy, advertising and art, and above all, to provide a task of diffusion in order to be known by the public at large. Of the last three, what most interests us is to become known by teachers and pupils in primary and secondary education, in order to consolidate the application of teaching through the archive collections.
The archive offers, within the limits established by the internal regulations of Fundación Uriach 1838, a service for obtaining copies of its documentary collections by means of photocopies and the printing of digital images, among other methods.
