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Mateo Garcia, writer and journalist responsible for Mazarrón correspondent for several regional newspapers since the early 60s has made this week a new donation from his personal archive.
If last March gave Mazarrón a collection of slides with historical pictures of the town, this time has been in Totana where Garcia wanted to make a new delivery of the newspaper archive material that has accumulated over the last 40 years.
Alderman Library, Patricio Sanchez and the Councillor of Tourism, Maria Angeles Mateo wanted to accompany Román García for institutional and formal ceremony held at the Plenary Hall of Totana Town Council in presence of the Mayor of the neighboring town, Juan Jose Canovas.
According to municipal sources of Totana, donation, with all original copies, basically corresponds to information published by the own Mateo Garcia in the regional press from 1957 until he retired in the exercise of his journalistic and documentary activity and yearbooks of different regional newspapers.
This includes 44 volumes of the correspondent of Totana and its surroundings Matthew Garcia in the newspaper "line" between 1957 and 1983 and 7 volumes of "La Hoja del Lunes" of Alicante.
In addition, the collection includes 17 volumes of the sports daily "Marca" between 1941 and 1947, 5 volumes related to newspapers and periodicals of the nineteenth century as "Sphere" and "The Iberian Illustration", 12 volumes of the journal "Black and White ", 6 volumes of French sports publications" L'Equipe "and" Paris Match "between 1953 and 1962 and 33 volumes of the magazine" Interview ".
Similarly, it has delivered the Consistory of graphic material part of his personal file, such as slides fruit of his travels around the world.
The speakers highlighted the career and journalistic and literary work of Mateo Garcia, whose legacy is essential to know the history of local and regional journalism from the 40s to the 80s.
They also reviewed his literary career result of his fruitful research and documentary graphics collection and Totana, Alhama and basically Mazarrón and whose latest work "History of Football in Totana. Part I" just seen the light.
See report:
http://www.totana.com/reportajes/2015/09/donacion-de-mateo-garcia-al-archivo-municipal/
Source: Ayto. Mazarrón / Fotos: Totana.com
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