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Two gentelmen and a cyclist, unidentified location
Rambla de Prat 15
Portrait of a boy
Factory scene
Factory at Rambla de Prat 15
This image has the name of the factory and the address: Rambla de Prat 15. I was the first in a series of clues that eventually led me to the photographer's son. Without this single image, the story of the photographs would remain entirely unknown
Workers at the factory, Rambla de Prat 15
Picadores outside the Las Arenas bullring, Barcelona
Bullfighter, possibly Jaime Pericás
Children in front of bicycle shop at Avenida Principe de Asturias, 10. Approximately 1935
Avenida Principe de Asturias 10, in 2006, with bicycle shop still in operation
Owner of the bicycle shop Ciclos Casas in 2006, at the moment he recognized that one of the children in the old photo I showed him was his sister, who had died as a child. He had no other photo of her
Unknown location, probably Barcelona
Women wearing carnival costumes in the patio at Rambla de Prat 15
Factory workers in the patio of Rambla de Prat 15
Patio at Rambla de Prat 15, 2004
Familly members, unknown location
Unknown location
Bar Flor, at the end of Rambla de Prat
Photo of Bar Flor in front of its old location at the bottom of Rambla de Prat
Men posing at Barcelona Harbor; Columbus momnumet, Customs House, and Stock Exchanges visible in the distance
Same location, approximately 70 years later
Family members, unknown location
Family members, unknown location, possibly the patio at Rambla de Prat 15
View of Plaza de España, at the inauguration of the 1929 International Exposition
Plaza de España, 2008
The son of photographer Francisco Casals, viewing an album I prepared of his father's work, Sant Feliu de Guixols, 2004