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Máquina de coser

 

Estela García Currais · 11 noviembre 2022 17:41


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Date, historical event and historical period
1914 aprox

Explanation of the object
Esta é unha máquina de coser the singer manfc 00 que pertenceu a miña bisavoa e actualmente encóntrase gardada na casa da miña avoa materna

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a xirafa especial

 

Alain Barbazán Blanco · 29 octubre 2022 12:17


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 A fecha deste peluche que foi cando o recibin foi o 21 de xullo de 2007 que foi as poucas horas de que eu nacera

Explanation of the object
Este obxecto ten un valor especial xa que o primeiro peluche que eu recibín as pucas horas de eu nacer, e a persoa que me regalou o peluche foi mestra da miña nai e anos máis tarde foi mestra miña en infantil no colexio de A Mahía.Os peluches surxiron hai máis de 5000 anos, en Mesopotamia. Creáronse xa que unha muller de Alemaña sufría de poliomielitis inspirouse nun debuxo dunha revista para fabricar un elefante de tea que rápidamente se convertiu nun xoguete moi popular.

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My great-grandfather's pocket watch

 

Icía Fernández Ferreiro · 18 diciembre 2020 17:13


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Date, historical event and historical period
This object is related to the Spanish Civil Post-War, around the 40s of the XX century.

Explanation of the object
This watch belonged to my great-grandfather (Manuel Fernández Tuero, 1910-1972) and my great-grandmother (Dolores López García) gave it to my dad several years after he died.

She did it because my dad is a bag-piper and when he plays the bag-pipe he wears the tradicional clothes (relates to the end of the XIX century) and a pocket watch. Until she gave it to him, he carried a modern pocket watch. She thought that he will be excited receiving the gift.

This pocket watch relates to some years after the Industrial Revolution. In the Industrial Revolution the watch was an expensive object and few people can bought one. My great-grandafather belonged to the middle class, he wasn't a labourer (he worked as a street sweeper) and my great-grandmother worked as a housewife in their house. They lived in a rent apartment.

This is a silver winding ("de corda") pocket watch and it's engraved at the back with color. It has arabic numbers and a small sphere in the watch face that shows the seconds ("segundeiro"). The watch brand is "ZEDA WATCH" (we can see it in its watch face). Nowadays, it has a silver chain that has about twenty one years.

We don't know the actual monetary value, but it has a very big sentimental value because it had been in the family about one hundred years.

As an anecdote, my dad carried this pocket watch when he got married.

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Our basket

 

Roi Dorrego Núñez · 6 noviembre 2022 19:46


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My grandmother told me that this basket is from 1935, so it is from the XX century. Relating this to an historical event, we can see that this basket belongs to the second Spanish republic. One year later of the creation of this basket started the second Spanish civil war. So, I think that it is important to mention something about these two relevant events on the Spanish’s history.
Related to the first one, we can see that this basket was done on the fifth year of the republic. However, at this moment, the situation was not good. There were lots of revolutions and Franco was named as head of state and, next year, he betrayed his command, so it would start the civil war.
Some positive news of 1935 were that it was created the newspaper called “Ya”, which allow to spread information around the country. Also, some archaeological discoveries were found in Guadalajara. It is important to mention these news because if not, it seems that all was negative.
Linked with the civil war, it is relevant to say that this one lasted four years and its trigger was a dictatorial regime. At this moment, happened the history of my great- grandfather. This period was very hard for Spanish citizens and there were two sides. One of the principal consequences was a wide economic crisis. Franco was one of the main protagonists of this period.

Explanation of the object
My maternal great-grandfather named Manolo had a hobby of making wicker baskets. At 18, he had to stop because the civil war was starting and he was forced to go. In the war, he was shot eight times in the right leg but fortunately he didn't die. This couldn't stop her enthusiasm to continue making baskets, but if before he didn't have a job, now it was impossible. Every day after the terrible massacre that they did to his leg, Manolo had to apply some gauze and take it off at the end of the day.

The basket we see in the photo is from 1935, just a few months before going to war. My mother says that she saw his leg and admits that it looked very unpleasant. The wound ran from the knee to the top of the ankle.

From my point of view, my great-grandfather was too strong because he received eight shots and then he continued doing what he like the most. I think it is a synonym of courage. In my grandmother's house and in mine we have several baskets for different uses from a bread basket to the laundry basket.

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Visiting card from my great-grandmother

 

Pablo Freijeiro Díaz · 17 diciembre 2020 23:35


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This object relates to the developmental phase of the 60s, in Spain, phase that I will summarise in a few lines because it is necessary to understand the relationship:
In 1959, an estabilization plan was started. This plan liberalized, in a way, the Spanish economy, which had been isolated from the international environment during the period of autarky. The stabilization plan also made way for the economic development of the decade of the 60s. During that period the first development plans were started in Spain. It is also a phase of opening to abroad, thanks to the growth of tourism. Simultaneously, from the 50s to the 70s, the mecanization of agriculture produced a surplus in labor force, and these workers ended up emigrating to other countries or to big cities.
The relationship between the object and this period is that Amparo, like many other people, emigrated to a big city, Valencia, and not only is it a big city, but it is also right next to the Mediterranean, which was the zone that benefited the most from this event. During this period I mentioned before, there was a reactivation of the Spanish economy, and people like my great-grandmother moved to cities in search for progress an a higher quality of life. This card is from when Amparo started to work as a full time dressmaker (after moving to Valencia (and later to a different part of the city). This event happened in 1961. This means that the card is for sure from the decade of the 60s, without counting 1961, it is still a long period, but there was sadly no information available that could make the numbers more exact. It is definitely not from the 70s because Amparo started to feel bad since 1970 due to a heart problem, so she stopped working like she used to do a few years earlier.

Explanation of the object
This object is a visiting card from my great-grandmother, Amparo, who worked as a dressmaker in Valencia. It of course relates to me because Amparo was my great-grandmother and, although I never got to meet her, my mother still remembers her and occasionally tells a story about her life.
In order to understand this object better, I will make a quick summary of Amparo's life:
Amparo Teba Mora was born in 1923 in Martos, Jaén. When she was a teenager she started as an apprentice in a tailoring workshop in her hometown. There, she mostly made uniforms for soldiers. This was due to the Civil War, which was still being fought back then.
Amparo married a soldier, Ángel, in 1942, And that same year the couple moved to Fuerteventura, where they had their first daughter (my grandma, Mª del Rosario), in 1943.
Only two years later, they moved to Seville. Then, Ángel left his job in the military and began working as a peddler in order to maintain the family. At the same time, Amparo began sewing for her friends and acquaintances.
In 1951, they moved again, but this time to Valencia. Amparo continued sewing, but now she made clothes for everyone who asked her (not only friends), so she started to get more money for her job. She didn't have a sewing machine, so she went to the customers' houses and used theirs instead. Eventually, the couple had a son, Ángel, and this caused Amparo to feel overwhelmed at home so, they decided that Rosario would leave school in order to help her mother with her work, when she was only 12 years old. Amparo only made male clothing for her relatives, because she was a dressmaker. She never had en employee, but had a few people come work with her as apprentices.
When Rosario was 18 years old, the whole family moved again, but just a few streets away from their previous flat. By this time Amparo had saved up enough money to buy a sewing machine and a table for cutting, so she made her own workshop at home. She even made wedding and communion dresses, and it got to a point when her job was the main form of income the family had. This is important because she, a woman, was the head of the family at a time when men were considered superior, and this makes her story even more inspiring.
Sadly, Amparo Teba died in 1970, after achieving so much, and not long after Rosario had her third daughter.

The object I chose is a visiting card from when Amparo finally made her own workshop and started working at home. Back then, she lived in Valencia (Padre Viñas street). This card is just an item used to promote Amparo's business, and it doesn't have any economic value, only sentimental. My grandma found it in her house a few months ago and it was a very happy surprise for her so, I knew from the beginning that this was going to be the item I would choose for this project. Furthermore, all my family was happy with the discovery, and my granparents now keep it in their house and are very careful not to lose it, because it represents a very important part of my great-grandmother's life. This card has a lot of sentimental value and in this case this feature determines its heritage value.
When it comes to historical value, it is not that important of an item, but in my opinion it is important because it shows how my great-grandmother was a strong woman and ahead of her time, because she was the head of the family, instead of her husband. I think that this object reinforces the ideas of equality and in some way, feminism, due to it showing how a woman can also work and be a leader, something that our current society still doesn't understand. In conclusion I estimate that it's historical value isn't too much, because she didn't change the country or do anything very important, but I think this has more value in the current vision of history, due to it being part of the everyday life of a family and, I believe that the message it contains is what ends up being more important.

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