A large school building runs along the street, its ground floor rusticated and arched, its upper windows in carved frames and its name lettered along the frieze. Boys crowd before the entrance, a man stands in the road with one arm out beside a horse cab, and women in long skirts walk on the right. In the lower house next door is the book and paper shop of Ágoston Herger, a bookseller and postcard publisher in the town. The school is the Hungarian state civic and higher commercial school, which faced the Royal Hungarian Post Office across Úri utca, Lords' Street; the caption calls the street Fő utca, Main Street.
About this place
The spine of the old town, running from Liberty Square to the Bishop's Palace. It has been renamed more often than any other street in Novi Sad. It began as the Glavna ulica, the Hauptgasse, was called Magazinski sokak for a period after an uprising, and became Fo utca under the Hungarian administration after 1867 and then Kossuth Lajos utca in the last decades of Austro-Hungarian rule. Between the wars it was Kralja Petra I; it was renamed for Mussolini under the wartime occupation; after the liberation it was Kralja Petra I again, then Marsala Tita, before settling on Zmaj Jovina for the poet Jovan Jovanović Zmaj. The oldest house on it is number 28, Kod belog lava, built in 1720 and among the first two-storey houses in the town. It is pedestrian today, lined with shops, bookshops and cafes. One caution for anyone dating a picture by its caption: the Kossuth name did not stay attached to this street. Miletićeva, the old Lebarski sokak, carried it during the Hungarian occupation of 1941 to 1944, so a Kossuth street postcard has to be dated before it can be placed.
On the card
Ujvidék / Fő-utcza a polg. és keresked. iskolával / HERGER ÁGOSTON / KÖNYV és PAPIR / […] POLGÁRI ÉS FELSŐ KERESKEDELMI ISKOLA
Novi Sad / Main Street with the civic and commercial school / Ágoston Herger / Books and paper / […] civic and higher commercial school
- Date
- 1896-1908
- Coordinates
- 45.25627, 19.84710
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2358 × 1546 px
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