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Joyero antiguo con reliquias familiares

 

Lucía Rodríguez López · 18 diciembre 2020 17:03


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Date, historical event and historical period
Es del año 1975 (SIGLO XX). Fin del franquismo ya que es de un poco antes de la muerte de Francisco Franco y tiene casi los mismos años desden que España ya no tiene dictadura.

Explanation of the object
Cuando mi abuela volvió de Alemania cuando el Franquismo estaba en sus últimos días, trajo con ella este joyero que era muy importante y tenía un gran valor sentimental ya que fue un regalo para la tía de mi madre que la había criado mientras mis abuelos estaban emigrados.
Luego de la muerte de mi tía, mi madre heredo el joyero y desde entonces guarda en el algunas joyas de su tia y un reloj de su tio para recordarles y así guardar algo de ellos.

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Piano

 

Lara Lorenzo Estévez · 11 noviembre 2022 14:15


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Date, historical event and historical period
September of 1980 there wasn't a historical event.

Explanation of the object
When my mum was about 6, my grandmother saw her playing with a tool. This tool had like little round buttons on the side, and she used to pretend it was a piano and play the piano, so her mum asked her if she wanted to play the piano and she said yes, so my grandma found a piano teacher for her daughter and she started lessons, but, she didn't have a piano to practice on. One day her mum needed a sewing machine so she found a woman that was going to sell her a sewing machine, but my grandma wanted to pay less money for it and the woman wanted her to pay more money, so this woman had a piano and said to my mom that if she pays her such an amount for the sewing machine she could have the piano for free. So, because my mother wanted to learn to play the piano, her mum said yes, but she had to take the piano home. She didn't have anything to take the piano home in it, because the piano is very heavy and very big. So my godfather's mum, uncle, dad and mum worked in the local hospital. My mother's godfather was porter so he brought one of the patients beds with wheels on, from the hospital, to pick up the piano, because what really happened, was that somebody had a van, so they got the van, they went to pick up the piano in the van but the piano wouldn't fit in the van so that's when they had to go and get this trolley thing from the hospital. Then they put the piano on this trolley bed and they had to take it home walking behind the van very slowly because they couldn't run and the piano was very heavy. They went all through a one-way system, they had to go that way because there wasn't another way to get home so they started pushing this piano on this trolley or bed, and it started raining and of course it was night time because in England in the winter, it's dark at about 5:00 in the afternoon. It was already like night time, and they were behind this van with all this traffic jam of cars behind them because they were going so slowly. Later it started raining. When they finally got home after so many miles, they had to put the piano in the house. The house had this very narrow path to get into the house and they couldn't turn the piano to get in, through the front door, so they took it in, through the garden. They got to the garden gate and the piano wouldn't fit through the gate so they had to break the garden gate and take it off, to get the piano into the garden. Then, finally, they got the piano into the kitchen and into the living room. It was there all the time so whenever my mum used to practice, no one was allowed in the living room . Then the piano was taken to their new house in Horsham, but the moving people did that, so they didn't have to touch the piano ever again. She played until she was 16. She was going to take her last exam but her teacher made a mistake with the day so she couldn't take the last exam and she started college. Then she left it in Horsham when she came to Spain, and her parents were so fed up with this piano so they sent it to Spain, so she didn't play it again until her parents sent it over.
That's the story of the piano. Thanks to the piano my brother and I also learned how to play the piano and reminds my mum her childhood, and always makes her laugh when she remembers the story of how this piano came in her possession. The piano has more than 42 years old, because it's been 42 years since my mum had it and before, it was already really old, so it's an antique. It's from the brand Broadwood White & C°. London. Upright Iron Grand.

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"Solo si es SONY es un Walkman"

 

Mauro Fernández Pérez · 10 noviembre 2022 18:25


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Date, historical event and historical period
El 1 de julio de 1979, la compañía japonesa SONY lanzó al mercado el primer reproductor estéreo personal, el TAS-L2, de color gris y azul, y que se comercializaría poco después con el nombre de Walkman.

Explanation of the object
En el verano de 1979 apareció el primer reproductor personal, de tamaño pequeño que cabía en un bolsillo y con auriculares, que se generalizó con el nombre de Walkman y del que se llegaron a vender más de 365 millones de unidades en el mundo. Hasta ese momento, los discos solo se podían escuchar en lugares cerrados y solo había reproductores en los coches o en las casas, con grandes altavoces. Daba igual que la calidad de sonido no fuese tan buena como los discos o que los auriculares no tuviesen la potencia de los grandes altavoces porque el Walkman daba libertad.Con el nuevo invento se podía caminar, hacer deporte y escuchar música en la calle. Aún más, podías grabar canciones directamente de la radio y crear un casete con tu propia música.
Al cofundador de SONY, el japonés Masaru Ibaku , se le había ocurrido la idea en sus largos viajes porque le encantaba escuchar música clásica. Su invento se basaba en tecnología ya existente, las cintas de casete habían aparecido gracias a la competencia, Philips.
Tenia forma rectangular y botones de control en los lados. En su parte delantera un dial de radio y un compartimento en la parte de atrás para las pilas. La cinta se introducía por la parte de adelante y eran necesarios unos auriculares.
Se vinculó a jóvenes que empezaban a disfrutar de cierta libertad, al deporte (el aeróbic) que se puso de moda en los 80, a las tribus urbanas del hip hop, el rap. Incluso su color plateado y azul, como los vaqueros que estaban de moda era una señal de identidad de los jóvenes de los 80 y 90 en todo el mundo. Se convirtió en un símbolo de modernidad, de libertad, de individualidad, de identidad.

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www.ecured.cu/Walkman
www.sony.es/electronics/walkman

Name of the object

Histoire de France(Book) My great grandfather (1920-1984) used this book´s history in school in 1934. It is a memory of our family.

 

Daniel Campos Pauzat · 11 diciembre 2020 20:01


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Date, historical event and historical period
This book was used in the primary school in 1930 in the period between the first and second world wars. It was a difficult period in France because a lot of children lost their fathers during the war and their mothers must work to support the family. In this period, children went to school until 14 years old and after that, they must work to help their families. It also was a time of resentment between deutch and french people because the confrontment was recently.

Explanation of the object
This is a worn out book because it is almost 90 years old. The topic is the history of France since origins (Gallic society) until actuality, but it was my great grandfather´s actuality, so it goes no further 1928.
It has few illustrations and they are in black and white, the typography is very small and the cover is made of paperboard. In my opinion its historical and heritage value is in realizing the changes in the students´books in almost 100 years and how boring it was to learn from this type of books.

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Name of the object

El bolso de viaje

 

Carme Iglesias Abeledo · 9 noviembre 2022 17:44


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Date, historical event and historical period
El bolso se lo regaló mi abuela a mi abuelo en 2003.

Explanation of the object
Mi abuelo siempre fue una persona a la que le gustaba mucho viajar y descubrir sitios, por eso siempre andaba con lo indispensable encima. Este bolso era su favorito, lo usó durante muchos años ya que gracias a que tenía muchos bolsillos podía guardar en el todo. Además, fue un regalo de mi abuela cuando se jubilaron y pudieron viajar, ya que al ser ganaderos no era algo que habían hecho mucho. Mi abuelo murió en el 2011,cuando yo tenía cuatro años, tengo pocos recuerdos con él pero ha estado muy presente gracias a las historias de mi madre, ella siempre me ha contado de todo sobre él y este bolso no ha sido la excepción. Es un bonito recuerdo de él, un objeto muy suyo que lo representaba muy bien.

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