Two-Dimensional Ideas

Among the millions of documents stored in the archives, a small part includes graphics with special characteristics that set them apart from the rest.

The main one is that they represent a physical reality or idea using lines and colors that enable us to position ourselves in an urban space, construction, object, or past event.

Guadalema de los Quintero (Utrera) in the Arroyo Salado de Morón region was created in 1948 and is the imaginary town that appears in certain comedies by the Álvarez Quintero brothers. It is, in fact, named after these dramatists and poets from Utrera.

The Uceda Estate lies within the Municipality of Carmona (Seville).

This is an elevation and floor plan of the main farmhouse on the estate.

The Torre Rubia Estate on Las Torres land is in Alcalá del Río (Seville), in the lower Guadalquivir Valley.

This is a sketched plan of the chapel on the estate.

The National Institute for Colonization (INC) also created schools in the new towns to give colonists' children an adequate education and, consequently, housing for teachers working at the schools, as can be seen here on the Torre Rubia Estate.

The new schools created by the National Institute for Colonization (INC) also had chapels, such as the one shown on this plan belonging to a school on the Torre Rubia Estate.

Detail of the cast iron fence at the Royal Tobacco Factory in Seville, which separates the building's main facade from Calle San Fernando.

It was erected around 1860 by Seville foundry Portilla Hermanos y White and based on a model used inside the Crystal Palace at London's 1851 Great Exhibition in Hyde Park.

In this detail from the plan for replacing the boat passage arch with two metal sections (1903), we can see the cross-section of an original finial on the Triana Bridge deck.

These beautiful artistic finials disappeared from 1918, when the bridge's appearance altered: it was given cantilevered pedestrian sidewalks and the original deck was later changed.

Sketch elevation of public toilet kiosk in Plaza del Altozano in Seville's Triana neighborhood.

Family tree of the Caviedes brothers, Don Miguel Luis and Don Antonio del Valle Caviades, part of the Patent of Nobility for both.

Detail of the Count of Miraflores de los Ángeles' coat of arms. The Spanish nobleman and soldier's title shield was granted by King Carlos II to Juan de Torres de Navarra y de la Vega Ponce de León, who previously held the title Vizconde (Viscount) de la Vega.

This title was presented as proof of conviction in an dossier at an extensive trial in 1989 brought by his heirs.

Hernando or Fernando Columbus (1488–1539), son of Christopher Columbus, was an outstanding bibliographer and cosmographer who owned one of the most important libraries of his time.

He died in Seville in 1539, and was buried in the main nave of the city's cathedral.

In his will, he specified his gravestone design, stating it should bear the phrase "To Castile and León a new world given by Colón" (Colón being the Spanish form of Columbus). He also said the wording should be framed by four open books with the epigraphs "Authors, Sciences, Epitomes, and Subjects": the various catalogs for organizing his book collection.

Drawing found in a notarial deed of an urn with a cross and angels belonging to the Brotherhood of the Holy Cross, of the Triana Bakers' Guild, in the old Convent of Our Lady of Victory in Seville.

Drawing of a mill found in a notarial deed dated 1630, done by Spanish sculptor Francisco de Ocampo y Felguera.

Drawing of a knife and sheath found in a dossier from a judicial file in the War and Navy Clerk's Office archives.

Vertical elevation drawing of a mill and water wheel built on the banks of the Viar River (Seville) from the archives of the Real Audiencia appellate court.