O COLECŢIE PRIVATĂ DE CĂRŢI POŞTALE. COLECŢIA CRISTIAN FLORIN BOTA1
A PRIVATE COLLECTION OF POSTCARDS. THE CRISTIAN FLORIN BOTA COLLECTION

Summary/Abstract: Cristian Florin Bota Collection is one of a wide variety of themes. An impresive collection of more than 8000 postcards, carefully arranged in albums on beatifully library shelves, plus magazines art objects, more or less listed on the market, in any case reliable sources of information about a world that existed, about places and people who have pur their stampon it, about visionary people in different fields on activity, about traditions, about us, who we were, about us those who are. A collection that subsumes many subcollections. More than 8000 postcards are kept in thematic albums, each locality in turn subdivided by the criterion of seniority and presentation. The main part of postcards is the documentation, and within these, topographic postcards. More 1500 pieces have images from different localities of Alba County, dating from the late nineteenth century and up through 1960, plus approximately 1000 dated after 1970. Over 1000 postcards of prewar and postwar provide images from our country and abroad. They are snapshots of great cities, monuments, statues, streets, parks, interesting buildings, pavilions and exhibition halls, valuable works from the collections of major museums (paintings, sculpture, graphic arts, and decorative arts). The collection has what experts call personal achievements, family photos, scenes of family, the flashes of weddings, personalities and local or regional cultural events. This subcollection of European actors from the interwar period arranged in five albums includes more than 500 postcards. Noteworthy are a few dozen postcards that are simple and semiilustrated, dated 1885-1905 period. A map with property documents is also interesting, in addition to purely technical data, the image of Teiuş houses during the town planning action initiated by Nicolae Ceauşescu, each such document bearing three to four photos to the destroyed building and outbuildings. The Diverse category includes atypical postcard, greeting cards, collages, various notebooks, etc. all stored in several structured boxes. In a metal box, to complete the collection about 50 negative with buildings images of the interwar period. In this collection, recently found their place, a stack of cards circulated between local public authorities and the national and international authorities, most of all signed, keeping the evidence of the relationships between them, sources of information for after ages.

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