The photograph collection of Martí-Codolar, located in the Municipal Archive of the District of Horta-Guinardó, is made up of around 700 photographs, comprising positives, negatives and glass plates, which provide a portrait of Barcelona at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Most of them were taken by the amateur photographer, Joaquim Pascual i Martí-Codolar. The collection also contains the album of family portraits and albums of the animals the family had on their private estate, the Martí-Codolar Farm in the Horta neighbourhood. The owner died in 1852, and it was inherited by his wife and son Lluís Martí-Codolar, the uncle of Joaquim Pascual, the photographer.  In 1872, pavilions and a zoological garden were built to house exotic animals that Lluís brought back from around the world, among which were zebras, camels, ostriches, giraffes, llamas from Peru and an elephant popularly known as L’Avi [Grandad]. There were a total of 163 animals that the Barcelona City Council acquired in 1892 for 30,000 pesetas, and what would be the first municipal zoo of the city was built.