A tram runs down the tracks toward the camera, and the same twin towers, a stouter clock tower beside a taller Gothic spire, recur on the skyline in the distance, matching the silhouette of the Kossuth Lajos utca views from an earlier era. Carts, pedestrians and a corner news-kiosk with a poster line the street. The heading is given in Serbian first, Кр. Александра улица, Kr. Aleksandra ulica, King Alexander Street, without any Hungarian at all, marking this as a Yugoslav Kingdom-era card.
About this place
The street running off Liberty Square, named for King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and carrying the name still. The archive's cards look along it toward the spire of the Name of Mary Church, with the tram in the roadway and shop awnings down the left side. Under the occupation of 1941 to 1944 the street carried Adolf Hitler’s name, and the archive’s wartime photograph of it is filed here under that period. Under socialist Yugoslavia the street carried the name Ulica narodnih heroja, which a separate street about 120 m south-west carries today, so a caption using that name has to be dated before it is placed. The pin is the OpenStreetMap line of the street itself.
On the card
Újvidék Kr. Aleksandra ulica
- Date
- 1919–1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25417, 19.84420
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2341 × 1525 px
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