A time capsule takes us back 120 years and tells us of a timeless love, that between a little girl who lived in the early twentieth century and her cat .

In fact, some precious memories of the little girl were found in an old box, including negatives of some photos taken of the beloved pet.

The story spread online and was reported by La Stampa , which in an article told of the singular discovery made by a photographer who found some objects forgotten over the years in his hands.

Time capsule: the box for posterity

A time capsule is a special container created to store objects deemed important, special and intended to be delivered at a later time.

There are individual time capsules and other collective ones, perhaps made on the occasion of epochal and particularly significant ceremonies or events.

How the singular discovery happened

The capsule was found by Mathieu Stern who learned of the existence of the container hidden by a little girl in the early 1900s in an old family home.

The content was absolutely suggestive : pendants and jewels, some objects of the little girl and a couple of negatives of photographs taken 120 years ago.

And the latter, in particular, attracted his attention.

The photo of unconditional love

The French filmmaker, who has always been passionate about photographic experiments , wanted to share on Youtube the entire development process of the images, which he carried out using the cyanotype, an ancient photographic printing method that has now fallen into disuse.

Two absolutely clear photos emerged : one portrays a cat in the foreground, while the other shows a dog and a kitten together with the animal.  

Two shots that attest to the unconditional love that the little girl had for her four-legged friends : a feeling so strong that she wanted to keep their images jealously protected forever in a time capsule.

A suggestive and unusual discovery, from which a sweet truth emerges: the child certainly did not want her beloved cat to be forgotten. And so she decided to hide the photos along with her most precious objects.